Reaching underserved client populations
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by helpingthemexplore issuesrelated tobodyimage,self-conceptandrisktaking. perspective ontheHerculean clientsto reclaim ittakesforcertain theirlife. effort A counselor’s provides personalexperiencewithtraumaticbraininjury anew By NzinghaDalilawithKaiaGoodwin&Geoffrey Yager My beautifulmind Reader Viewpoint Counselors can play an important role in addressing the unique needs of amputees Knittel By Marvin Helping clientswithlimbloss Reader Viewpoint commitment tohumanrightsby practicingculturallyresponsive interventions. Regardless ofpoliticalperspective, counselorscandemonstratetheir By SelmaD. Yznaga andManuel Zamarripa Counselors’ response toMexican immigration Reader Viewpoint riskbeingoverlooked. orotherwise are hesitanttoaccesscounselingservices Numerous ACA membersare actively reaching outtoclientpopulationsthat By LynneShallcross Under theradar Voice Awards honor positive depictionsofmental healthissues ACA, Division&Regionelectioninformation schoolnamedfor PatNew elementary Henderson recognition withinthelargercounseling profession. Rehabilitation counselorsare sometimeslefttoquestion theirgenerallackof J.By Frank Lane Wouldn’t itbenice? Opinion Field trialsare toevaluate proposeddiagnosticcriteria. thefinalopportunity new By K. Dayle Jones Counselor involvement inDSM-5fieldtrials Special Series
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11 The Two-Minute Advocate Numbersby the Numbers 12 Counselor Career Stories Digital dating harassment A new study released in October by the Cyberbullying 16 New Perspectives Research Center found that one in 10 teens has received a threatening cell phone message from a romantic partner. Private Practice in Counseling The study, drawn from a random sample of 4,400 11- to 18 18-year-olds at a large school district in the southern part of the nation, also provided additional statistics that are cause 20 Resource Reviews for concern. 24 Spotlight on Journals Victims u 10 percent reported that a romantic partner had prevented 26 The Digital Psyway them from using a computer or cell phone. u 6 percent said a romantic partner had posted something ACA Blog Sampler online to publicly make fun of, threaten or embarrass 28 them.
u Slightly more than 5 percent of boys and 3 percent of girls said a romantic partner had uploaded or shared a humiliating or harassing picture of them online or through Need to Know a cell phone. Offenders From the President 5 u 7 percent of those surveyed admitted sending a threatening cell phone message to their romantic partner or preventing 7 Executive Director’s Message their romantic partner from using a computer or cell phone.
8 Letters to the Editor u 6 percent of boys and 4 percent of girls reported posting something online to publicly make fun of, threaten or 101 Obituary: Victor E. Bibbins Sr. embarrass a romantic partner. u 5 percent of boys and 3 percent of girls admitted 104 NBCC Perspective uploading or sharing a humiliating or harassing picture of a romantic partner online or through a cell phone. 106 Division, Region & Branch News 108 Bulletin Board 109 News & Notes 111 Classifieds
4 | Counseling Today | December 2010 From The President CounselingToday
Counseling Today Staff Publisher Richard Yep
Associate Publisher A call to serve Carol Neiman
Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Rollins Marcheta Evans 800.347.6647 ext. 339 [email protected]
Senior Writer Lynne Shallcross hen I heard this month’s I was not used to failing. I was the 800.347.6647 ext. 320 cover story would focus on smart one, the cute one and, yes, I could [email protected] usually talk my way out of any problem Wthe topic of underserved Advertising Representative populations, I started pondering possible or issue. This was not the case with my Kathy Maguire reasons that some populations remain organic chemistry instructor, however, 607.662.4451 underserved. Is it due to a lack of especially since I could not understand [email protected] funding? Is it because they are not aware half of what he was saying because of Graphic Designer of the services available to them? Is it his international accent. By the time I Carlos J. Soto II possible that we, as counselors, tend to started to grasp some of his words, it was 800.347.6647 ext. 377 too late. When the quarter was over, I [email protected] overlook them for some reason and fail received the dreaded D! How would I to focus attention on them as we should? CT Column Editors explain this to my family, who took up a I am not sure what the ultimate reason is community collection so I could go off to Washington Update for this predicament. Scott Barstow school in the first place? In deciding to become counselors, most 800.347.6647 ext. 234 Well, I marched over to speak with the [email protected] of us understood that this profession academic adviser to see what help I might centers around the concept of service. receive to get out of my predicament — Counselor Career Stories Our jobs are about enabling our students Rebecca Daniel-Burke and walked away even more confused. 800.347.6647 ext. 230 and our clients to develop good problem- The word on the street was that if [email protected] solving skills and empowering them to you wanted to graduate on time, you solve their own problems. Basically, we needed to stay away from the counselor’s Resource Reviews Kelly Duncan work ourselves out of a job. So how could (academic adviser’s) office. They would [email protected] we be missing (or underserving) certain mess you up. But how could that be? populations or groups? Wasn’t it their job to provide you with Private Practice in Counseling the best service? Were they overworked? Robert J. Walsh and Norman C. Dasenbrook Then a light went off in my head, [email protected] and I thought about how I became a Were they unhappy in their jobs? Was the counselor in the first place. You see, I university not paying enough to get the Spotlight on Journals most qualified people to perform the job? Sheri Bauman was supposed to be a “real” doctor. You [email protected] know, the one with an M.D. instead of a Again, more questions with unsatisfactory Ph.D. I graduated from high school when answers. New Perspectives I was 16 and was ready to enter college I came to a crossroads. Should I Donjanea L. Fletcher continue to struggle in my chemistry [email protected] as a freshman majoring in biology and classes or graduate on time with a chemistry. The problem was I had not The Digital Psyway degree in psychology and history? I just been advised to take the courses I needed Marty Jencius happened to have enough courses to [email protected] to take in high school to be successful as a pursue that route, and I could still make science major. My high school counselors my family proud that I had a degree! thought that because I could “speak Well, as they say, the rest is history. I took so well,” I needed to be in an honors the so-called “easy” road (due to a lot of program for humanities, not a science- reasons that I can share with you later, if based program. Well, fast forward and, interested), but it led me to where I am needless to say, organic chemistry was my personal undoing in college. Continued on page 105
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 5 ACA Author Content Session Series Ernest N. Morial Convention Center U Room 220 Leaders in the field discuss their new ACA books in this highly informative series.
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7:30 am – 8:30 am s Program ID #110 7:30 am – 8:30 am s 0ROGRAM )$ The Creative Arts in Counseling Cyberbullying: What Counselors Need to Know Samuel Gladding Sheri Bauman This session will focus on how the creative arts (music, This session will provide current information about literature, drawing/painting, dance/movement, and humor) cyberbullying and cyberaggression and will offer prevention can be used effectively in a variety of settings to help clients and intervention strategies for technology users across the gain insight into problems and negotiate solutions to life span. situations they bring to counseling. 10:30 am – 12:00 pm s 0ROGRAM )$ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm s 0ROGRAM )$ Creating Your Professional Path: Lessons Counseling Children: A Core Issues Approach From My Journey Richard Halstead, Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson, and Jodi Mullen Gerald Corey This session will teach you about the nature of client core Dr. Corey will discuss turning points in his personal and issues, how to conduct a core issues assessment, and how professional journey, the counselor as person and professional, to implement counseling interventions that help children developing a personal perspective on counseling theory address the core problem and establish lasting change. and group work, becoming an ethical counselor, being mentored and mentoring others, creating a career in 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm s 0ROGRAM )$ counseling, becoming a writer, and self-care. The Essentials of Tough Kids, Cool Counseling: Evidence-Based Principles and Innovative Techniques 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm s 0ROGRAM )$ John Sommers-Flanagan and Rita Sommers-Flanagan Experiential Activities for Teaching Multicultural Four culturally diverse cases will be reviewed and analyzed Competence in Counseling to illustrate effective counseling practice; collaborative Mark Pope, Joseph Pangelinan, and Angela Coker disclosure, goal-setting, and agenda making; rolling with This interactive session will highlight creative, thought- developmental autonomy; and playful therapeutic activities. provoking, and challenging multicultural activities designed to increase students’ awareness, knowledge, and skills 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm s 0ROGRAM )$ regarding human diversity. Clinical Supervision in the Helping Professions Patrice Moulton and Gerald Corey 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm s 0ROGRAM )$ The presenters’ will discuss roles and responsibilities of Terrorism, Trauma, and Tragedies: A Counselor’s supervisors, the importance of the supervisory relationship, Guide to Preparing and Responding multicultural competence in supervision, ethical issues in Jane Webber and J. Barry Mascari supervision, legal and risk management issues, evaluation in The two coeditors of Terrorism, Trauma, and Tragedies share supervision, and becoming an effective supervisor. inspiring stories and photos that illustrate meaning-making; healing; and posttraumatic growth from Haiti, New Orleans, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm s 0ROGRAM )$ Virginia Tech, September 11, and the earthquake in China. A Job Search Manual for Counselors and Counselor Educators: How to Navigate and Promote Your 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm s 0ROGRAM )$ Counseling Career Integrating Spirituality and Religion Into J. Shannon Hodges and Amy Reece Connelly Counseling: A Guide to Competent Practice The authors of this new book will present helpful information Craig Cashwell and J. Scott Young job seekers in the counseling profession should know The presenters will discuss the recently revised spirituality before they commence their search. Topics to be discussed competencies, the history of the competencies, how the will include writing effective résumés, CVs, and cover new competencies were developed, and clinical applications letters, as well as employment trends, interviewing tips, and of each competency. In addition, new chapters from their managing disappointment. BOOK INCLUDING CHAPTERS ON MINDFULNESS STEP SPIRITUALITY feminine spirituality, prayer, and ritual will be highlighted.
6 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Executive Director's message CounselingToday professional counselors. I am well aware American Counseling that the old “magic wand” doesn’t work Association quite as well as it used to, but perhaps if President we generate enough discussion, we can Marcheta Evans begin to network, exchange ideas and create 800.347.6647 ext. 232 advocacy plans that will open a dialogue [email protected]
Richard Yep with and engage the interest and support President-Elect of public policymakers, businesspeople and Don W. Locke community leaders. It couldn’t hurt to try. 800.347.6647 We already know the result if we stand back [email protected] and do nothing. Is the pipeline Executive Director Perhaps it is time that we all do what Richard Yep too full? we can to create just one more job for 800.347.6647 ext. 231 counseling professionals. Think about it. [email protected] few years ago, we might have If our 27,000 professional members were received a few calls at ACA successful at doing this for the 17,000 Counseling Today (ISSN 1078-8719) is the headquarters each month from monthly magazine of the American Counseling A student members in our database, we Association, 5999 Stevenson Ave., Alexandria, members who were having a tough time would still have another 10,000 jobs for VA 22304-3300; Telephone: 703.823.9800; finding a job. Since that time, the frequency Internet: counseling.org. Opinions expressed (and desperation) of these calls has increased other counselors looking to move into new positions. And if those 10,000 moved into in this magazine do not necessarily represent significantly. For many, the tough economy opinions of the editors or policies of the has resulted in fewer new jobs. Related to new positions, that would create vacancies American Counseling Association. this is the fact that counselor education in the jobs they left. I know this all seems like a pipe dream, Subscriptions are available for $150 for 12 programs continue to graduate caring, issues by calling PP&F at 800.633.4931. Single compassionate and dedicated individuals but we need to start somewhere, so why copies are available for $12.50 each by calling who, after a number of years and thousands not think big? Let’s move this discussion ACA in-house fulfillment at 800.422.2648 ext. of dollars in student loans, simply can’t find out into the blogosphere, onto e-mail lists 222. and into the general communities in which gainful employment in the counseling field. Periodicals postage paid at Alexandria, Va., and The ACA staff and I hear from counselors we live. So much need exists out there, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send (new as well as midcareer professionals) the counseling profession has so many who address changes to ACA Member Services, willing to relocate and take lower pay just wish to work with individuals in need. 5999 Stevenson Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304. Don’t we owe it to those entering All rights reserved, 2010 by the American to find positions in which they can impact Counseling Association. people’s lives. Unfortunately, although some the profession and to those midcareer positions are out there and occupational professionals looking to make an even Editorial Policies outlook data suggest counseling is a greater impact with clients and students? I Counseling Today reviews unsolicited articles growing profession with career possibilities, think we do, and I sincerely hope to hear and guest editorials for possible publication. from you on this matter. Not all articles will be accepted for publication. not enough openings currently exist for Send articles or request a copy of the writing those who are so eminently qualified. As the calendar year closes out, let me guidelines by e-mailing [email protected]. Is there something we can do about thank all of you who are ACA members. this unfortunate situation? Do we need to The staff and I wish you a productive, Anti-Discrimination Policy peaceful and fulfilling New Year as we There shall be no discrimination against any ask counselor education programs if it is individual on the basis of ethnic group, race, viable, long term, to continue recruiting look ahead to 2011. And if you were religion, gender, sexual orientation, age and/or and graduating more counselors? Or can an ACA member as of Nov. 1, 2010, disability. we impact public policy at local, state and remember to go online to vote for officers and board members! This year, we hope Mission Statement federal levels in ways that would create The mission of the American Counseling more jobs for professional counselors? to significantly increase voter participation Association is to enhance the quality of life I want to hear from you on this matter. because moving the process online in society by promoting the development It is critical that we look at this problem makes it easier to vote. To learn pertinent of professional counselors, advancing the information about the candidates, go to counseling profession and using the profession and come up with solutions to help these and practice of counseling to promote respect very deserving colleagues of yours. If it was the ACA website at counseling.org or turn for human dignity and diversity. within your power, what would you have to our election section in Counseling Today government, graduate schools, community beginning on page 64. agencies and school systems do to address Please contact me with any comments, this problem? questions or suggestions that you might Let’s begin a national (or even have via e-mail at [email protected] or by international) discussion about how phone at 800.347.6647 ext. 231. to create, find and fund more jobs for Thanks and be well. u
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 7 Letters
Don’t be so quick to The American Psychological dismiss the medical field Association published guidelines I saw Mr. [James] Hansen’s article for nonpsychiatric mental health (“Extending the humanistic vision”) professionals recommending knowledge in the October 2010 Counseling Today of the medical model of psychiatric Editorial policy and started reading it with trepidation. disease and basic introduction to Counseling Today welcomes letters Having been introduced to his opinion the medications available. This is in to the editor from ACA members; from his article in the Summer 2007 complete disagreement with what Mr. issue of the Journal of Counseling & Hansen stated, but I think it brings submissions from nonmembers will Development in a recent class, I knew up an important point. As the ACA be published in rare circumstances. that his opinions and my own are vastly Code of Ethics notes, you need to Only one letter per person per different. acknowledge different approaches. Also topic in each 365-day period will I recognize that Mr. Hansen is taking look at Standard D.1.c., Interdisciplinary be printed. Letters will be published Teamwork, where we are to focus on an extreme stance in an effort to create as space permits and are subject to the best care for the controversy and editing for both length and clarity. thus promote client. I recognize Submissions can be sent via e-mail conversation. that many times, the medical approach is or regular mail and must include However, he needs not the best approach to take into account the individual’s full name, mailing for a mental health that he may be address or e-mail address and complaint. However, alienating those he telephone number. not being aware as is trying to reach. ACA has the sole right to counselors of the Both the medical medical model, determine if a letter will be accepted and counseling medications and for publication. fields recognize medical approach Counseling Today will not the increasing can actually be a publish any letter that contains “medicalization” of detriment. unprofessional, defamatory, everyday experiences. I am going to end incendiary, libelous or illegal Both fields are also with a confession. statements or content deemed as aware of the “quick- I am part of the fix” mentality that medical field intended to offend a person or exists in a majority Mr. Hansen so group of people based on their of Americans. vehemently opposes. race, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, Nevertheless, dismissing the medical field I worked in primary care for four years sexual orientation, gender identity, so broadly is not helping either side. Only and started numerous patients on disability, language, ability, ideology, recently has the medical field begun to medicines. But I also provided referrals to social class, occupation, appearance, acknowledge that an authoritative voice counselors more often than not and made mental capacity or any other is not the best approach. If you type sure to listen to what my patients had to “patient compliance” into the American tell me. I agree that not every medical distinction that might be considered Academy of Family Physicians website, provider may take the time to do this. by some as a liability. ACA will not you will get back more than 1,200 But why not reach out to the medical print letters that include advertising responses discussing how to improve profession, meet it halfway and create or represent a copy of a letter to a this aspect of care. You will also see the better dialogue and better care? Is not the third party. The editor of Counseling term “medical home” used a lot. What goal of both groups to help the individual Today will have responsibility for be the person they are supposed to be, does this mean? It means the medical determining if any factors are present profession is recognizing that it does not not necessarily change who they are or that warrant not publishing a letter. have all the answers and is trying in its medicate them into oblivion? E-mail letters to [email protected] own way to reach out. Also refer to ACA Deanna Bridge Najera, MPAS, PA-C or write to Counseling Today, Letters Code of Ethics Standard D.1.a. concerning Physician Assistant and Graduate Student being respectful of different approaches. in Mental Health Counseling to the Editor, 5999 Stevenson Ave., This is another reason to keep the Shippensburg University Alexandria, VA 22304. medical field “in the loop.” Shippensburg, Pa. u
8 | Counseling Today | December 2010 December 2010 | Counseling Today | 9 Washington Update - By Scott Barstow and Dominic Holt
Suicides shed light on bullying
t 8:42 p.m. on Sept. 22, a and on the Department of Education’s in physician payment rate legislation college freshman posted his website at ed.gov/news/press-releases/ passed this year, but the 112th Congress A goodbye message on Facebook: guidance-targeting-harassment-outlines- convening in January will be taking up “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.” local-and-federal-responsibility. For Medicare legislation again, providing us Authorities believe Rutgers University more information from OCR, call with another vehicle to which we can student Tyler Clementi then jumped off 800.421.3481. attach counselor coverage legislation. the George Washington Bridge in New The guidance is part of a broader focus A second item on the agenda is finaliz- York City, committing suicide after his on the issue, as highlighted by ACA ing spending for Fiscal Year 2011, includ- roommate secretly recorded him being Executive Director Richard Yep in his ing on education programs of importance intimate with another man and allegedly October Counseling Today column. The to school counselors. Election-year poli- put the video online for others to watch. Department of Education has posted tics tied up the annual spending bills this Recently in Minnesota, a 15-year-old a database of effective anti-bullying year, and federal programs are operating youth hanged himself after repeated programs and research at bullyinginfo. at FY 2010 funding levels until Dec. 3. harassment regarding his perceived sexual org. Related information, including Congress could pass a short-term funding orientation. These are just two tragic messages from the It Gets Better Project, extension until next year, when the new cases in a spate of recent high-profile is online at findyouthinfo.gov. The White Congress begins, or it could try to wrap suicides believed to stem from bullying House will host a conference on bullying up spending bills in one omnibus pack- and harassment, and policymakers are and harassment early next year, and the age. Of note, the Senate Appropriations expanding efforts to combat the problem. Department of Education will conduct Committee has approved a $2 million On Oct. 26, the U.S. Department of workshops on the topic around the increase, to $57 million, for the Elemen- Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) country. Bullying prevention is expected tary and Secondary School Counseling issued guidance on bullying to elemen- to be a hot topic during reauthorization Program. This would mark the program’s tary and secondary schools, colleges and of the federal Elementary and Secondary highest-ever level of funding. universities that receive federal funds. Education Act. A third “must-pass” item is legisla- Many schools and school districts have For more information, contact tion to authorize defense spending for anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies Dominic Holt with ACA at 800.347. FY 2011, which affects the TRICARE concerning religious or sexual-orientation 6647 ext. 242 or [email protected]. program. ACA is pushing for language discrimination. However, student miscon- Lame-duck session of to allow counselors to practice indepen- duct under such policies may also trigger Congress holds potential dently within TRICARE. Only coun- school responsibilities under federal an- Three major issues the 111th Congress selors are still required to operate under tidiscrimination laws enforced by OCR. is considering during its lame-duck physician referral and supervision even According to the guidance, a school must session after the Nov. 2 elections could though the program covers nonphysician take immediate and appropriate action to affect the counseling profession. mental health professionals. Language investigate what occurred once a school Medicare is on the agenda in the House defense authorization bill knows, or reasonably should know, of because physicians face a 23 percent (H.R. 5136) charges the Department of possible student-on-student harassment. reimbursement cut starting Dec. 1 Defense (DoD) with developing criteria A school must also take prompt and effec- and another 6.5 percent cut on Jan. to allow counselors to practice indepen- tive steps to end harassment if it has oc- 1. Congress has regularly postponed dently but lets DoD decide what those curred, eliminate any hostile environment physician payment cuts in recent years criteria should be. The Senate’s bill (S. and prevent recurrence. and is expected to do so again. ACA 3454) includes detailed language specify- These responsibilities exist regardless and its coalition partners have been ing very narrow criteria counselors must of whether the misconduct is covered by urging Congress to include Medicare meet to practice independently. ACA is a local anti-bullying policy or whether reimbursement of counselors and working to generate support for compro- a student files a complaint, requests marriage and family therapists in any such mise language to establish independent the school to act or identifies the package. Although congressional staff practice authority under TRICARE for harassment as a type of discrimination. members have expressed support for our all highly qualified licensed counselors. A copy of the guidance is posted on provision, they remain concerned about For more information, contact Scott the American Counseling Association’s its costs. Congress might choose not to Barstow with ACA at 800.347.6647 ext. website at counseling.org/publicpolicy include Medicare benefit improvements 234 or [email protected]. u
10 | Counseling Today | December 2010 The Two-Minute Advocate - By Scott Barstow and Dominic Holt
ongress returned to n Medicare beneficiaries often lack Washington after the Nov. adequate access to outpatient mental C2 elections for a lame-duck health care. Millions of Americans live session to wrap up work on a few in areas where there are shortages of items still remaining on its agenda. mental health professionals, and LPCs Among those items is responding are more likely to practice in rural to two scheduled cuts in physician areas than are clinical social workers. reimbursement rates under Medicare: a Even in urban areas, patient choice of get back to you. Also keep a copy of 23 percent cut starting Dec. 1 and a 6.5 provider is critically important to the your contact so you can follow up with percent cut starting Jan. 1. Physicians success of mental health treatment. the office later if necessary. All members groups and consumer groups are of Congress can be reached by phone clamoring for Congress to postpone the n Covering counselors and marriage through the U.S. Capitol Switchboard cuts and maintain reimbursement rates and family therapists is cost effective. at 202.224.3121 and through ACA’s to keep more physicians participating The Congressional Budget Office in the Medicare program. Policymakers estimates that this provision would Internet action center at capwiz.com/ and advocates have wanted to develop cost $100 million over five years counseling. an alternative Medicare reimbursement and $400 million over 10 years. In We also invite you to share your formula for some time, but so far an comparison, postponing the scheduled concerns or questions regarding the agreement — including on a means cuts in physician payment rates under legislation with ACA Director of Public of paying the costs of any increase in Medicare costs in the neighborhood of Policy and Legislation Scott Barstow at payment rates — has proved elusive. $1 billion a month. 800.347.6647 ext. 234 or sbarstow@ Medicare coverage of counselors n The Affordable Care Act is expected to counseling.org. can be part of this package if enough increase demand for services, including Whom to contact members of Congress want it included! mental health services. Covering Your Senators and Representatives The Senate has passed counselor LPCs under Medicare would provide Medicare coverage legislation twice beneficiaries with access to more How to contact them already, in 2003 and 2005, when the than 115,000 experienced, effective U.S. Capitol Switchboard Senate was under Republican control. providers across the country. Likewise, the House of Representatives 202.224.3121 has twice passed counselor Medicare The American Counseling senate.gov coverage legislation, in 2007 and 2009, Association encourages counselors to house.gov when the chamber was under Democratic contact their representatives and sena- capwiz.com/counseling tors to ask them to include Medicare control. We simply need both the House Suggested message and the Senate to agree to Medicare coverage of LPCs as part of broader “I am calling to ask that any Medicare coverage language as part of the same bill Medicare legislation this year. legislation passed by Congress in the to get it enacted into law. In order to be effective, constituent Members of Congress in both the contacts should be personalized. This lame-duck session include a provision House and Senate should know the means that calls and letters should be in establishing coverage of medically following: your own words and describe your own necessary mental health services covered by licensed professional counselors. This n Establishing Medicare coverage of thoughts and experiences as a constituent licensed professional counselors and of your legislator. If you have been forced is a bipartisan proposal to expand access marriage and family therapists would to turn away Medicare beneficiaries, write to care to more than 100,000 providers, not change Medicare’s benefit package about that. If you had to stop seeing cli- and it has passed both the House and the (for instance, it would not establish ents after they became enrolled in Medi- Senate twice already. coverage of marriage counseling). care, write about that. If you know you “Medicare beneficiaries need better Instead, it would simply expand want to be able to work with Medicare access to outpatient mental health the pool of providers available to beneficiaries when you become an LPC, services, especially in rural areas, and provide currently covered services. write about that. If you have a friend or professional counselors are as well trained Only medically necessary outpatient family member who is a Medicare ben- — if not better trained — as some mental health treatment would be eficiary and who needs outpatient mental currently covered providers. Thank you covered, pursuant to a diagnosis. health care but can’t find a provider, write for your consideration.” Services provided by counselors would about that. be covered under the same rules, Regardless of whether you send an ACA resource requirements and reimbursement rates e-mail, write a letter or make a phone Scott Barstow that apply to care provided by clinical call, include your name and mailing 800.347.6647 ext. 234 social workers under current law. address so that the legislator’s office can [email protected] u
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 11 Counselor Career Stories - By Rebecca Daniel-Burke
Making connections Rachel Collins with young lives
achel Collins wrote me seeking from 2007 to 2009. I currently serve as RC: I use many aspects of various information about blogging the trauma-focused cognitive behavioral theories in my work, such as the empty R for the American Counseling therapy (CBT) site coordinator with chair technique. This technique works Association. I asked her to send me a my current employer and have served as well in helping children have practice résumé and followed that up with a coordinator of Mental Health Awareness conversations with their parents. My phone call. During the course of our and National Eating Disorder Awareness gravitation toward the person-centered conversation, I realized she was doing weeks. theory is shown through unconditional meaningful, important work with RDB: Please say a bit about your acceptance of the client, meeting the children, not only at the agency where favorite counseling position. client where the client is and working she works but in her community. Couple RC: I believe I am currently in my on goals from there. CBT is a popular that with her active involvement in favorite counseling position because approach with children because it is counseling organizations and you have a I think that I work best within the important to help children realize that future leader. Here is her story. profession when working in the thoughts and actions are connected. Rebecca Daniel-Burke: What is your therapeutic setting with children. In RDB: You have worked with children current counseling position? addition, being able to supplement my quite a bit. How is that different from Rachel Collins: I am employed as a work with outside endeavors such as working with adults? clinical therapist at the Cornell Scott publications and presentations allows RC: I believe that with children, I Hill Health Center Child and Family me to explore multiple aspects of the am finding more creative avenues to Guidance Clinic. I have provided counseling profession. help them reach their treatment goals. individual, group and family therapy RDB: What led to a profession in Taking books and games and making a as well as case management services to counseling? therapeutic component out of them offers children and their families ages 3 to 18 RC: I took a psychology class in high children a chance to engage in everyday since 2007. school and continued to take such classes activities while learning to control such RDB: What other interesting positions once I entered college. Due to some things as anger. For example, with the have you held? RC: I have been a postgraduate difficulties of my own, I sought out game Trouble, each time a child pops a associate at the Yale Child Study Center counseling at the university counseling six, they have to tell about a time they Positive Interventions for Families center and was inspired by the work of got into trouble and what they could do with HIV/AIDS program providing the counselor who helped me. I decided differently if the situation arose again. individual, group and family therapy to pursue a degree to be able to give back When working with adults, I found the as well as case management services to to others in a similar manner. resistance greater and harder to break families affected by HIV/AIDS. RDB: As you moved through school, through. During my master’s program, I was there one theoretical orientation that RDB: Have you been trained in play served as a research assistant at the Yale you gravitated toward more than others? therapy? Do you use this modality in University Health, Emotion and Behavior RC: I gravitate toward several theories your work with children? Lab. Responsibilities included study such as CBT, person-centered and RC: I have not yet been trained in play design and promotion and development Gestalt. I can be somewhat reality-based, therapy. I have done extensive reading of a quality assurance program. especially with children, where a matter- on the subject and do incorporate Other interesting positions outside of-fact attitude often relates to them best. various techniques, as outlined in the of employment include being the RDB: Where does your predominant reading, into my practice. I hope to gain conference chair and program chair for theoretical orientation come into your certification in play therapy in the near the Connecticut Counseling Association work? future.
12 | Counseling Today | December 2010 RDB: What do you think about our profession today? What about the political side of counseling? Agencies, contracts, business strategies … Does all of this have a place in counseling? Counseling and Psychotherapy: RC: Being part of an agency, one is aware there is a productivity standard. It Theories and Interventions appears necessary to have these standards Fifth Edition to make sure the agency is bringing in enough revenue to keep the agency edited by David Capuzzi and running to help the clientele. It has its Douglas R. Gross place in counseling, but it can also affect the quality of care if one is not cognizant “Counseling and Psychotherapy of the needs of the client and more features important theories and trends concerned with keeping a job by meeting not covered in other foundational a productivity standard. texts; the emphasis placed on social RDB: Is there still a place for caring, justice is especially noteworthy. compassion and advocacy in counseling? Overall, this book provides readers RC: Yes, without it I believe it is difficult to see the perspective of a client. with a substantive foundation for With compassion comes the desire to their work as professional counselors.” help others. It is important to advocate —Carl J. Sheperis, PhD for the client who cannot advocate for Walden University himself. Out of this philosophy of caring and This student-friendly and well designed introductory text compassion came my Girl’s Group. provides a thorough overview of 14 widely used theories. I saw a need for a group to address Experts examine each theory from the perspective of its issues affecting adolescent girls in the historical background, major constructs, goals, cross- community in which I work. I believe cultural considerations, and limitations. Traditional this could be a national program. This group gives girls a forum to speak on and brief interventions integrate theory with specific issues in a caring and compassionate counseling strategies, giving students further insight into environment without judgment. the counseling process and guidance in developing their RDB: Tell me more about the group. personal counseling style. A consistent case study across RC: It is a 12-week group. We discuss chapters reinforces the differences between theories and body image, self-esteem, relationships and illustrates assessment of client concerns and treatment social networking. It is one hour a week. planning. Introductory chapters explore core dimensions We get referrals from other agencies, and and brief approaches to the helping relationship, and I have self-referrals from my caseload. how to best deliver counseling and advocacy services to Medicaid will pay our agency for these diverse client groups. A complimentary test manual and groups. Eventually, I want to make the PowerPoints for instructors’ use are available by request on curriculum I have created available to university letterhead.ÊÓ䣣ÊUÊ{änÊ«}ÃÊ others. RDB: That is wonderful. You are hitting on all of the top adolescent girl Order #72902 - ÊÇn£xxÈÓäÓÇ££ issues. ÃÌÊ*ÀVi\ÊfÈ{°xÊ ACA Member Price: $46.95 RC: Thank you. It is really a fulfilling experience to do that group. Please include $8.75 for shipping of the first book RDB: How did you determine what and $1.00 for each additional book. area of counseling you were passionate about? RC: After working with children in American Counseling Association others areas, including as a figure skating 800-422-2648 x222 coach and a preschool assistant teacher, I discovered that my best-served purpose counseling.org was to work with children. I focus on areas such as eating disorders and self- injury based on my own past experiences.
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 13 I was also fueled by the feedback I got Convention. She possesses a wealth of like to gain more prominence as a state, from adolescent girls. My clients would knowledge, and I continue to turn to regional and national speaker and author often state that I was easy to talk with. her as I move forward in the counseling on subjects related to children and RDB: Have you learned anything profession. adolescence as well as eating disorders about self-injury and possible treatment RDB: Has studying counseling and and self-injury. I hope to eventually have strategies that you would like to share? becoming a professional counselor been my own private practice. RC: It is very common with the transformational for you? I also hope to get a doctorate in the adolescents I see. It appears to be a RC: I believe it has made me a better area of counselor education so I can take coping mechanism for some. They will listener outside of my job. It has made my teaching experience and use it to say, “I have done this. I feel better. Now I me more aware of my surroundings. train future counselors. I am currently can move on.” It has made me pay attention to small One of the things I do is help them things as well as big events that can looking to gain certification in sports create a coping skills box. We might put change a person’s life. counseling and play therapy to broaden in a stress ball, a Slinky, a stuffed animal, RDB: What mistakes have you my counseling repertoire. temporary tattoos, a journal, an art pad made along the way as you became the RDB: I can see that your work is and any other thing they like to do. They counselor you are today? And what intense at times. What ways do you find open the box, pick something out and lessons have you learned from those to take care of yourself and fill yourself have something to do when they want to mistakes? back up? cut themselves. RC: In an effort to help as many RC: I try not to take home paperwork RDB: Brilliant, inexpensive and easy children and their families as possible, from the office. I try to have a clear to do. Now, back to you. Did someone at times I can take on too many clients. separation between the time I spend with in your life see something special in you That is a mistake. the children I work with and the time early on? Who valued you as a unique I have learned that sometimes I spend with my family. I like working individual? Who are your heroes? as I pursue other interests, such as out. I especially like taking walks to clear RC: My mother always allowed me to presentations and publications, I must my head and refocus my energy. u be who I was. If I was happy becoming stay true to myself and not let the a counselor, then she was happy for me opinions of others impact my individual and supported me in doing that. perspective. My mentor in my master’s program RDB: Is there a saying, a book or a had a great impact. It is largely due to quote that you think about when you her that I am able to do what I currently need to be inspired in your work? do in the counseling profession. She RC: I have several sayings in my office guided me to explore all avenues of the that I remind the children about when profession. She introduced me to many they need inspiration, including “What people and gave me the opportunity would you attempt if you knew you Rebecca Daniel-Burke is director of to be involved in many aspects of could not fail?”; “Be the change you wish the ACA Career Center. Contact the classes she taught. She got me to see in the world”; “Never, never, never her at [email protected] if you have questions, feedback or involved in national organizations by give up”; and “Dare to be remarkable!” suggestions for future columns. helping me gain the opportunity to RDB: What is next for you in your serve as the ASERVIC (Association career? Letters to the editor: for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious RC: I would like to work on [email protected] Values in Counseling) graduate student publishing the group curriculum I representative at the 2006 ACA National developed for adolescent girls. I would
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 15 New Perspectives - With Donjanea L. Fletcher
Evaluating our beliefs
any complexities are that anyone reads, and 2) always be a relationship. One aspect to consider is involved in finding your witness to the Lord, and when you have the difference between your Christian Mcounseling style. One to, use words. — New Professional, North “beliefs” and the “theological virtues” major challenge during this process is Carolina that are the cornerstone of many balancing who you are with who you are Lisa Jackson-Cherry: You ask, “Which religious thinkers, writers, leaders, saints becoming as a counselor. In this month’s comes first?” My answer is simply: The and scientists of various faiths. As one column, a counseling student and a new client ultimately comes first! How you are example, I would hope that all counselors professional ask for guidance as they face able to integrate your faith for the benefit are able to provide a counseling this issue. Addressing their concerns: of the client will be your journey and environment based in the theological a question for continued personal and virtues evident in most religions and n Thomas R. Scofield, associate profes- sor and coordinator of the Community professional reflection. cultures: faith, hope and love. These can Counseling Program in the Depart- I encourage you to evaluate the beliefs be applied to the counseling profession ment of Professional Counseling at the that influence your role as a practicing and in our professional relationships with Christian and the beliefs that influence clients. in the counseling process University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He Faith what we know to be important for the and that you can be a part of the client’s is also a past president of the Asso- client/counselor relationship. I hope you healing journey and change. Hope in ciation for Counselor Education and will consider the following questions the client’s personal journey and healing Supervision. for reflection in your journey: “How process. Unconditional regard or love for n Lisa Jackson-Cherry, professor and can aspects of my personal faith be who your client is as an individual. chair in the Department of Counseling potentially harmful or beneficial in the Darlene Daneker: This is a good at Marymount University, where she counseling setting?” and “What is my role question and one that many new is director of the community and pas- as a practicing professional counselor in professionals and students struggle with. toral counseling programs. She is also comparison with my role as a practicing You do not want to compromise your a past president of the Association for Christian?” Both answers should lead to beliefs and live a life that is incongruent Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values the counselor being client-focused. to this essential part of yourself. Your in Counseling and current chair of the There are many faith-based settings client feels the same way. The ACA Code Maryland State Board of Professional in which same-faith counselors work of Ethics states, “Counselors are aware of Counselors and Therapists. with clients. Integrating same-faith their own values, attitudes, beliefs and practices in these settings is appropriate behaviors and avoid imposing values that n Darlene Daneker, associate profes- are inconsistent with counseling goals” sor in the Counseling Department and potentially beneficial for clients. Regardless, you should continually reflect (Standard A.4.b.). at Marshall University. She has been on the questions above because you never Many times, our clients have different an active member of ASERVIC and know who may walk into your office beliefs than we have, and we seek to the American Counseling Association holding beliefs different from those you understand, empathize and work within since 1997 and has served on numer- hold. At a minimum, the professional the client’s frame of reference. When you ous committees, including the ACA counselor must be able to “be” with the are not working, you are free to follow Ethics Committee. client in his or her grief or struggle. and act on your beliefs as you choose, w You may have answered another part but once you step into the counseling of your question when referencing relationship with someone, you are a Dear New Perspectives: “those who cannot ‘live their faith’ where counselor first. Which comes first, the Christian who they work.” Your question implies a w is a counselor or the counselor who is a personal connection to one’s own faith. Christian? I do not think I could counsel Remember, your personal religious Dear New Perspectives: if I could not do it with the Holy Trinity practices within your faith are your core I recently reflected on how I have as the cornerstone of my counseling values and your beliefs and may not be become very comfortable with case model. For those who cannot “live their what is beneficial to the client. management after about 12 years in faith” where they work, how do they However, I also would ask you to the social work field. I’m afraid this survive? I always keep two things in explore what aspects of your faith may has impacted my ability to do effective mind: 1) You might be the only Bible be beneficial to the client/counselor counseling. It is taking a lot of work to
16 | Counseling Today | December 2010 transition from being a case manager to hope as the binding elements of the being a counselor and is not as easy as “issue.” It is directly tied to a companion I had hoped. How can I overcome this question: What does it mean to issue? — Master’s Counseling Student, effectively “do” counseling? The answer Florida might be as varied and diverse as asking, Thomas R. Scofield: A wise mentor “How would you define counseling?” once told me, when asked for advice, To overcome something implies on listen to the explicit message and the some level that it must be vanquished. In implied needs underlying the request. this case, I sense the process requires some Developing confidence and competence measure of deconstruction of knowledge over a 12-year period with any structure that may interfere with transferable and its accompanying procedural skills and the modification of existing dynamics creates a comfortable conceptual, procedural and relational foundation from which to succeed in skills that are more applicable to the new any occupation. In short, how one role. In my humble opinion, effective performs the functions within his or her counseling is not so much about doing professional role becomes second nature, something to and for someone. Rather, it a bit more pragmatic and parsimonious is the being and becoming with someone over time. A foundational shift in that constitutes the greater agency of occupation or philosophy, however, change. That is not to suggest that it leaves much to be desired regarding does not come without structure and comfort and ease of transition from one procedure. But these are not the necessary established structure to another. The term considerations for the development of afraid many times connotes fear, regret nonhierarchical, mutual and reciprocal and concern for the unknown. relationships that sustain and comfort the The training and service provisions change happening within it. of both the social work and counseling As a reflective practitioner, I have come professions carry transferable skills that to appreciate that when undertaking are applicable in multiple contexts. Here anything new, I will struggle with the is a simplified example. insecurity and inadequacy of not having a The individualized service plan in social “known” structure upon which to draw or work becomes the counseling treatment rest. In all honesty, I have come to expect plan. Nothing really changes regarding it — dare I say, rely on it — to inform the ongoing assessment and evaluation of my efforts as a professional practitioner efficacy regarding the treatment plan in and lifelong learner. u relation to the client’s attainment of goals, Donjanea L. Fletcher is a student emotional stability and well-being over affairs counselor at the University the duration of service or the consider- of West Georgia. If you are ation of sociological or ecological factors a student or new counseling promoting and maintaining the client’s professional and would like to difficulties. These elements of advocacy submit a question or an article and quality service provision carry no ex- for this column, e-mail dfletche@ clusive stamp of professional competency. westga.edu. The concluding question, “How can I overcome this issue?” draws Letters to the editor: greater consideration because it unites [email protected] discomfort, fear, impact, transition and
Greatest lessons learned Coming soon, New Perspectives will dedicate a column to Sam Gladding’s and Lynn Linde’s “greatest lessons learned.” Submit your questions about their development as professional counselors, and these two past presidents of the American Counseling Association will answer several of the best queries. To be considered for inclusion in this special column, e-mail your question to [email protected] by Jan. 10.
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 17 Private practice in Counseling - By Robert J. Walsh and Norman C. Dasenbrook
Going beyond the counselor’s comfort zone
Q: I am looking at starting a For the business card and letterhead, our clients’ new deductibles will kick in private practice and want to develop include your name, degree, title, license, Jan. 1. With the new insurance laws, we a marketing plan. What are all the office address, phone and fax numbers, are not sure how this will play out when considerations? e-mail and website. Also list a service a client’s contract recycles, but expect A: That’s a pretty global question but or two, such as “Marriage and Family big changes. To protect your clients and one that we are asked frequently. We can’t Counseling” or “Counseling and yourself, use the sample notice below do the question justice in a single Private Mediation.” Remember, keep it simple. and avoid the collection headaches we Practice in Counseling column, so we A bifold or trifold brochure is a encountered this past year when all plan to answer it over the next couple of cost-effective way of providing more insurance deductibles increased. columns. information to potential clients and Marketing and advertising may take referral sources. As with business cards Happy New Year! you out of your comfort zone as a and letterhead, however, less is more. We wish all our clients a Happy and professional counselor. However, if you Effective use of white space will help Healthy New Year! don’t commit to taking steps to market draw the eye to key pieces of information. Our accounting department has asked and advertise, another professional Include the same information as is us to remind you that the “Insurance New counselor will! If you want your practice printed on your business cards and Year” has begun, and the issue of your to become a rewarding experience, you letterhead, but also consider including deductible and number of sessions allowed will need to acquire a certain level of your photo (a head shot), a short should be considered. Accounting has confidence in selling yourself. You might statement about your approach to asked that we receive the full amount your be the world’s best at what you do, but treatment, whether you accept insurance, insurance pays until the deductible for this if potential clients don’t know about your specialties (don’t list too many) new year has been met. If you can bring you, your talents will go untapped. and other services that you offer, such information that you have no deductible, as workshops, consulting, custody we will ask only for your copay. Professional counselors provide a unique evaluations, forensics and so on. and valuable service that enriches Although this may sound painfully In addition, please don’t be surprised. people’s lives and promotes growth obvious, we have seen some really bad Counselors are now under the new and development while also being cost marketing material! If you have ample mental health parity law. In 2011, effective. In addition, that service has computer savvy, you may be able to some insurance and managed care tremendous value in the marketplace. create the materials yourself. Otherwise, companies will require more utilization Print material consider hiring a marketing consultant to review, require preauthorizations and As one of the first steps in your do it for you. limit the number of sessions per each marketing plan, you will need to develop If you have already produced print authorization. This is to bring counselors professional print material. The three material, we encourage you to review it. under existing medical insurance rules. most critical pieces are letterhead, Does it communicate the desired message To be safe, check with your provider- business cards and a brochure. about you and your practice? Does it relations representatives at the companies These materials should look clean promote you first and your practice you are billing. You also might ask your and sharp. Remember, less is more! second? Clients and referral sources clients to check their insurance to find Most marketing consultants will tell generally seek out individual professional out about any changes. you that “white space” (blank space) is counselors about whom they have heard w a good thing. Resist the temptation to good things, not group practices. So Come join us March 23-27 at the include too much information on these make sure your name is emphasized in American Counseling Association’s materials, thus confusing the client or your marketing material. Annual Conference & Exposition in referral source. Also, be cautious not to w New Orleans. We will be presenting overpower your print materials with too Important reminder the preconference Learning Institute much color or with images that could Don’t forget. January is “Insurance “Starting, Maintaining and Expanding cause confusion. Deductible Month,” and almost all of a Successful Practice: Surviving or
18 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Thriving?” on Wednesday, March 23, as well as the Education Session “To Private Practice or Not to Private Practice? That Is the Question” on Friday, March 25. ACA will be sponsoring free private practice consultations during the confer- Play Therapy: ence. Look for more information in the Basics and Beyond, Second Edition coming months about scheduling your Terry Kottman appointment. Stop by our booth in the exhibit center, tell us your private practice “This volume will be of great value to professionals entering stories and check out our book, The the field, as well as to experienced play therapists expanding Complete Guide to Private Practice. u their scope of practice, teaching graduate classes, or looking for a good solid reference.” —Risë VanFleet, PhD, RPT-S ACA members can e-mail their President, Family Enhancement & questions to Robert J. Walsh and Norman C. Dasenbrook at Family Play Therapy Center [email protected] and access a series of “Private Practice Written for use in play therapy Pointers” on the ACA website at and child counseling courses, this counseling.org. A podcast on extraordinarily practical text provides starting a private practice is also a detailed examination of basic and available to ACA members for advanced play therapy concepts free on the website. and skills and guidance on when Letters to the editor: and how to use them. Kottman’s [email protected] multitheoretical approach and wealth of explicit techniques are also helpful for clinicians who /" !61, !3 + " want to gain greater insight into " /+ !, 1,/ 1" children’s minds and enhance therapeutic communication through the power of play.
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 19 Resource Reviews - With Kelly Duncan
On Being a Therapist, “smoke and mirrors.” He comforts times find their revelations disconcerting, Fourth Edition readers by telling them they are not they will likely look up and realize they are By Jeffrey Kottler, 2010, Jossey-Bass, 368 alone in their experiences and goes on laughing. pages, $25, ISBN: 978-0470565476 to provide insights, techniques and What I enjoyed most about this book Some of the coping mechanisms for dealing with and was the author’s candor. In encouraging hardest and most transcending many of the unfortunate professional counselors to “become more valuable aspects realities of being a counselor. open, vulnerable and honest about your of becoming Kottler begins his dialogue with “The own unresolved issues,” Kottler boldly Therapist’s Journey.” In this chapter, he a professional and courageously leads by example. emphasizes that although a counselor’s counselor cannot Throughout the book, he discloses journey may be challenging and fraught be learned in a his own uncertainties, insecurities and with peril, it is also a rewarding one that classroom. Rather imperfections and, even as he persuades can be immensely satisfying and fulfilling. they are taught his readers to do the same, continually It is a journey filled with numerous through life’s hard challenges his own agenda and motivations. opportunities for professional growth and lessons. Jeffrey Above all, Kottler reminds us that we are deeper personal understanding. Kottler’s On all human — that despite our greatest The bulk of the book is separated Being a Therapist intimately explores not attempts and perfect intentions, we are into chapters that discuss some of the only the glory, splendor and highs of fallible and destined to be imperfect, yet more challenging topics for counselors: being a counselor but also the heartbreak, we will always strive for continued learning “Struggles for Power and Influence”; frustrations and daily trials counselors and growth. “Hardships of Therapeutic Practice”; Novice and seasoned counselors alike must face. “Being Imperfect, Living With Failure”; Kottler is a prolific author who has will benefit from this book. In a profession “Patients Who Test Our Patience”; in which we often work individually written numerous highly regarded books “Boredom and Burnout”; “That Which on a variety of subjects, one of which with little support, this book validates Is Not Said”; and “Lies We Tell Ourselves our experiences, provides a platform was made into a feature film.On Being a — and Others.” Each chapter begins for discussion and encourages ongoing Therapist doesn’t disappoint and further with a detailed description of a particular self-reflection and growth. Not only will supports his reputation as a writer. problem, challenging readers to reflect counselors personally benefit from reading The book is well organized, coherent on their own practice and experience to this book, but clients will benefit from and deeply personal. Kottler provides identify possible problem areas. Kottler our increased awareness, attending and numerous anecdotes from his extensive then offers techniques and solutions that professional development. personal experience as well as stories can be implemented to resolve these from various professionals whom he has issues. He emphasizes two primary points Reviewed by Misty Becker, doctoral student, interviewed. The vignettes appropriately throughout these chapters. First, the need University of South Dakota. complement and support the topic being to take care of ourselves before we can hope Clinical Supervision in the Helping discussed, while also serving to captivate to effectively care for our clients. Second, Professions: A Practical Guide, the reader. All the while, he intricately growth is a never-ending process. Although Second Edition weaves in a wide range of literature to we may effectively manage a particular By Gerald Corey, Robert Haynes, support his assertions. situation, such as dealing with feelings of Patrice Moulton & Michelle Muratori, This is a book that holds professional failure, Kottler admits that he often must 2010, American Counseling Association, counselors and other helping professionals learn the same lessons over and over again. 304 pages, $43.95 (ACA members); accountable for what goes on behind At times, On Being a Therapist can be $62.95 (nonmembers), Order #72898, closed doors. It serves as a catalyst for provocative, outrageous or even downright ISBN: 978-1-55620-303-9 professionals to begin discussing topics unbelievable. One such example is the and issues that are the equivalent of psychiatrist who reserved a wing of a motel Supervision is a key component of the “pink elephant in the room” — for his clients so they could continue counselor development. Individuals who things that are known to exist but are their treatment while he was on vacation. are interested in reviewing their current rarely acknowledged or talked about. The book’s overall tone, though, is one of supervision style and skills or those Kottler fearlessly brings these topics hope and humor. Through his writing, interested in becoming a clinical supervisor front and center, discussing them Kottler creates an atmosphere of support for the first time should read the second openly and honestly without all the and collegiality. Although readers may at edition of Clinical Supervision in the
20 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Helping Professions: being discussed. Questions range from Cyberbullying: What Counselors A Practical Guide. the relatively simple and straightforward Need to Know The book flows (“What is the primary role of the By Sheri Bauman, 2010, American smoothly from the supervisor?”) to those that help readers Counseling Association, 215 pages, $24.95 basic beginning reflect on their own supervision experience (ACA members); $29.95 (nonmembers), concepts of super- (“What have you learned about supervision Order #72900, ISBN: 978-1-55620-294-0 vision to the more methods from being a participant in In our complex ideas supervision?”). The suggested activities at fast-moving behind its prac- the end of the chapters could be completed technological tice. The authors individually or in small groups and are society, staying address several helpful in conceptualizing the information. up to date with key components of supervision, including In addition, the authors have done an advancements is concepts, models, ethical and legal issues, excellent job of bringing in perspectives difficult, even for contracts, evaluations and much more. The of supervision from the field. Twenty-six the most tech- chapters should prove engaging for the individuals from the counseling profession savvy individuals. reader with any level of supervision train- share their views on supervision. The For counselors, ing. The information is explained in an growth and development that occurs at all we are charged understandable manner, and case studies levels of training is made evident by the with the tasks of not only understanding throughout each chapter periodically rein- realistic responses, stories and difficulties and using technology in our personal and force the content being discussed. shared by both the authors and individuals professional lives, but also in assisting Although the authors spend a portion in the field. our clients as they navigate through the of each chapter outlining the key concepts This book would be an excellent resource e-jungle. In response to this, Sheri Bauman of supervision, the most beneficial for students in master’s- or doctoral-level has provided counselors with an amazing piece is the involvement of the reader. programs as well as counselors in the field resource, Cyberbullying: What Counselors In addition to sharing their experience either looking to become supervisors or Need to Know. and expertise of supervision, the authors wishing to refresh their knowledge of What stood out most for me in include focus questions and suggested supervision. reading this book was its great utility for activities to encourage active learning for Reviewed by Janelle L. Stahl Ladbury, practitioners. Not only does Bauman the development of the supervisor. Each doctoral student, North Dakota State clearly define types of cyberbullying and chapter poses questions for the reader to University, and school counselor, Fargo consider regarding the supervision concept Public Schools. Continued on page 23
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 21 A small sampling of other recent reference is an indispensable tool that writing clinical reports rounds out titles that counselors might find counselors and students will refer to the book. Yalisove’s clear and concise informative or interesting. The time and time again to ensure ethical writing style and his practical approach descriptions are provided by the books’ practice and offer best practice services to developing critical thinking and publishers. to their clients. counseling skills makes this an ideal supplemental text for addictions courses. Ethics Desk Reference Developing Clinical Skills in for Counselors Substance Abuse Counseling By Jeffrey E. Barnett and W. Brad By Daniel Yalisove, 2010, American Developing Multicultural Johnson, 2010, American Counseling Counseling Association, 232 pages, Counseling Competence: Association, 224 pages, $32.95 $29.95 (ACA members); $44.95 A Systems Approach (ACA members); $44.95 (nonmembers), Order #72895, By Danica G. Hays and Bradley T. Erford, (nonmembers), Order #72893, ISBN: 978-1-55620-307-7 2009, Prentice Hall, 528 pages, $81.33, ISBN: 978-1-55620-298-8 This skill-building ISBN: 978-0132432412 This essential primer provides This text is pocket guide a framework for an innovative, is designed to understanding evidence-based help counselors substance abuse approach to interpret and and teaches the facilitating apply the ACA basic concepts and students’ journey Code of Ethics skills necessary to becoming to prevent and for effective multiculturally resolve ethical counseling of competent dilemmas. In clients with counselors. Part I, Jeffrey substance use disorders. In Part I, Comprehensive, thoughtful, and Barnett and W. Brad Johnson provide Daniel Yalisove discusses counselor in-depth, Developing Multicultural an easily understood translation of roles and the fundamental principles Counseling Competence goes beyond each standard of the code, followed of substance abuse counseling. He general discussions of race and ethnicity by a discussion of common challenges then provides a synopsis of several key to include discourse on a broader, more associated with the standard and a list substance abuse theories as well as his complex view of multiculturalism in of recommendations for maintaining own building session goals and strategies clients’ and trainees’ lives. Both scholarly ethical, preventive practice in the method and the eight-stage process of and highly interactive, this text strives topical area. Part II contains an ethical counseling approach, all of which are to present trainees with empirically decision-making model and specific, practical, compatible means for learning based information about multicultural practical strategies for responding to and mastering clinical counseling skills. counseling and social advocacy paired frequently faced concerns surrounding Part II illustrates applications of the with engaging self-reflective activities, culture and diversity, confidentiality, tenets of these approaches in clinical discussion questions, case inserts and suicidal clients, boundary issues and situations — from beginning counseling study aids, creating opportunities multiple relationships, competence, sessions through termination — using for experiential learning related to supervision, managed care, termination experiential exercises, role-plays and cultural diversity considerations and and responses to subpoenas. A list of clinical scenario examples. Chapters social advocacy issues within clients’ recommended resources is included follow on group work, counseling social systems. The resource addresses both to assist counselors in preventing clients with dual disorders, family CACREP Standards related to the social ethical conflicts and in responding counseling and working with diverse and cultural diversity core area. u to these conflicts effectively if they client populations. A helpful chapter do arise. Clear and concise, this desk on creating client treatment plans and
22 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Resource Reviews Continued from page 21 different cyberenvironments for the reader, Clinical Supervision in the Helping but she also provides a great deal of user- friendly and extremely valuable resources. Professions: A Practical Guide Screen shots of common websites allow Second Edition the reader to quickly gain a sense of the sites without having to spend hours on the Gerald Corey, Robert Haynes, Internet. Patrice Moulton, Michelle Muratori Personally, I found “Responding to Cyberbullying” (Chapter 8) to be the most “This is the most comprehensive supervision helpful chapter in the book. In this chapter, resource that I have seen and one that the author gives the reader step-by-step provides a clear framework for consultation instructions on how to check a browser and supervision classes. It offers concrete history and how to report a problem on activities and focus questions to guide a social networking site. Additionally, the process, while covering those areas in the chapter contains information about supervision that have traditionally been important court decisions and includes unaddressed. I will adopt this text to train site supervisors and internship a summary of existing cyberbullying students in becoming competent future supervisors.” legislation by state. —Kellie Kirksey, PhD The final 50 pages or so of the book Malone University are composed almost entirely of resources and research designed for practitioners. “Engaging, practical, and up-to-date on current research and cutting-edge This section includes a variety of online issues in supervision, this book combines essential content with numerous resources and media and spotlights both opportunities to interact with the subject matter in a meaningful way.” fiction and nonfiction books that may be —Mary Kate Reese, PhD useful to counselors. A plethora of research Argosy University, Atlanta is highlighted as well, with studies broken down into single-paragraph summaries that This straightforward guide for new and practicing supervisors provide readers with a good overview. emphasizes the attainment of skills necessary to effectively supervise Bauman has pulled together a wealth others in a variety of settings. Topics covered include the roles and of information that is easily accessible, responsibilities of supervisors, the supervisory relationship, models well organized and comprehensive, thus and methods of supervision, becoming a multiculturally competent fashioning a book designed so that busy supervisor, ethical and legal issues in supervision, managing crisis practitioners can quickly assist clients situations, and evaluation in supervision. User-friendly tips, case in need. Not only does she provide examples, sample forms, questions for reflection, and group activities practitioners with needed information on are included throughout the text, as are contributing supervisors’ cyberbullying theories and research, but Voices From the Field and the Authors’ Personal Perspectives—making she has also delivered a resource that can be this an interactive learning tool that is sure to keep readers interested pulled off the shelf and shared with clients >`ÊÛÛi`°ÊÓä£äÊUÊÎä{Ê«}à to assist them in their struggles. It is the best of both worlds. "À`iÀÊÇÓnnÊÊNÊÊ- ÊÇn£xxÈÓäÎäÎÊÊ Ê Reviewed by Holly J. Nikels, associate professor, Department of Counselor List Price: $62.95 | ACA Member Price: $43.95 Education, Western Illinois University. u Kelly Duncan is an assistant Please include $8.75 for shipping of the first book professor in the University and $1.00 for each additional book. of South Dakota Division of Counseling and Psychology in American Counseling Association Education. Contact her at Kelly. 800-422-2648 x222 [email protected]. counseling.org
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 23 Spotlight on Journals - By Sheri Bauman Demonstrating the principles of research
lthough I usually discuss several also make the delivery more similar to authors do not provide comparative data. journal articles in each column, conditions under which the treatment In addition, the researchers used well- A this time I want to focus on is likely to be administered in the field. established measures of anxiety, which were one article that I believe exemplifies many This means practitioners can judge not anonymous. The researchers were thus important principles of research in our whether an approach whose efficacy has able to inform (by telephone and letter) field. Although the article merits attention been demonstrated in previous research is parents of children whose scores were on the basis of its topical relevance, it likely to be effective if they implement the in the clinically significant range of the also illustrates fundamental principles program or treatment in their own settings elevations in anxiety and to give parents of counseling research. I hope this close (in this case, schools). There is a current both information about anxiety and contact scrutiny of one article is instructive and insistence on evidence-based practice, information if they were interested in useful for readers. but the type of evidence required is rarely obtaining services in the community. This In the Fall 2010 issue of the Journal specific. I believe effectiveness research is a prudent and ethical approach when of Counseling & Development, Lynn D. should be the standard. looking at a serious disorder. The absence Miller, Christina Short, E. Jane Garland The researchers in this study modified a of anonymity, however, could cause some and Sandra Clark’s article “The ABCs treatment program for anxiety in children parents to withhold consent for their child’s of CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy): that was originally designed for use in a participation. Evidence-Based Approaches to Child clinical setting so that it could be provided The authors found no significant Anxiety in Public School Settings” describes in a school setting. Their belief was that differences between treatment and control an empirical study of a program to reduce schools offer many advantages for treatment groups on post-program anxiety levels. For anxiety in elementary-school children. First, of anxiety, given the many opportunities for both groups and on both measures, anxiety the authors note that the basic approach reinforcement and practice of skills learned was lower at post-test than at pre-test. They (CBT for children with anxiety) has been and the amount of time children spend in also compared pre- and post-test scores evaluated for efficacy. In their study, the the school environment. They also decided for those participants who had elevated authors undertake to evaluate effectiveness. advantages existed to having classroom scores on pre-tests. Again, no statistically This is an important step that is sometimes teachers, rather than school counselors, significant differences by condition were overlooked, perhaps because of the provide the program. Teachers see children detected. One final analysis found a challenges inherent in conducting research more frequently, have fewer children under significant reduction in levels of anxiety on in “real-life” circumstances. their purview and can link the program one measure but not the other for the group Efficacy studies are done under highly to other lessons and provide additional with elevated scores. controlled conditions. Participants are practice when needed. The delivery of the This leads me to note another valuable carefully selected so they have the disorder program via classroom lessons also helps feature of this article. I think it is crucial of interest without having comorbid children obtain and provide peer support that nonsignificant findings be reported in disorders, participants are randomly and normalizes their anxious feelings. Miller the scholarly literature. Often, researchers assigned to treatment or control groups, and her team found support for having are disappointed when “significance” is and treatment is manualized and closely teachers deliver CBT programs in the not detected, believing that their work monitored to ensure fidelity to the model. results of a study in Australia. will not be publishable and/or that they Effectiveness studies, on the other hand, Although the researchers did not have not “found” anything important. test an approach under typical conditions randomly assign individual students to However, the absence of significance is still in the field. Participants might meet treatment or control groups, which is often an important finding and one that needs certain criteria, but those criteria are impossible in real-world research, they to be disseminated. It could be that other likely to be less stringent. For example, did randomly assign participating schools researchers (or even the same researchers) participants might have a certain diagnosis to condition. All children in the schools will repeat the study after making but might not be excluded for comorbid received the program, but only the data adjustments on the basis of the limitations conditions. Random assignment of from those with written parental consent and recommendations provided in the subjects to condition is neither feasible nor were used in the analysis (another challenge article. It also could be that the program as practical. The many extraneous influences in research in the natural setting). We described — having teachers deliver what (for example, scheduling conflicts that must wonder how the findings might have was designed to be a clinical intervention as change the frequency of treatment) and differed if all the data could have been used. classroom lessons to all students — might challenges (strict monitoring of treatment We do not know how the children who not have the effectiveness that was hoped fidelity is unlikely), while making it did not have parental permission differed for. If that finding is not publicized, it is more difficult to find significant results, from those who did have permission; the possible that others will attempt the same
24 | Counseling Today | December 2010 plan without knowing a previous effort failed to produce the anticipated reductions in anxiety. A final element of this article was of interest to me. Although I acknowledge the validity of the many advantages the Cyberbullying: authors noted in having teachers (whom they trained in a six-hour session) deliver the program, I wonder if the results would What Counselors have been different if school counselors had been the providers. School counselors Need to Know are trained in providing classroom lessons, while also possessing an understanding of “Dr. Bauman does a great job mental health issues. The background that of providing readers with a school counselors possess would be difficult comprehensive and illuminating to impart in a single training. It could be overview of this disturbing that school counselors’ skills and training issue. The ton of resources and would have yielded more positive results. School counselors also could follow up research she presents makes with those students whose scores indicated this book a valuable, ready they might benefit from additional services, reference.” allowing the counselors to offer not only a —Russell A. Sabella, PhD universal intervention but also a targeted intervention for those needing more Florida Gulf Coast University support. As a counselor educator who trains This informative book offers complete, up-to-date coverage of school counselors, I think it is often the the growing problem of cyberbullying. Written for counselors, case that these counselors’ unique skills go teachers, school leaders, and others who work with children and underappreciated. teens, Cyberbullying addresses the real-life dangers students’ face I chose to focus on this article both on the Internet. Ó䣣ÊUÊÓ£xÊ«}à because of its important goal of testing the effectiveness of a program in schools and Benefits and Features because it illustrates how difficult it is to ■ Discussion of the different types of cyberbullying conduct this kind of study in the school and cyberbullying environments setting. Most important, although the outcomes were not statistically significant, ■ Overview of prominent theories of aggressive behavior readers benefit from knowing that, and ■ Examination of the developmental differences in cyberbullying the authors took steps to disseminate their and victimization across the life span results. To me, publishing only “significant” ■ Practical tips to identify and follow cyberfootprints outcomes leaves the profession without ■ Proactive responses to cyberbullying a large body of empirical evidence — ■ Effective, nonpunitive strategies for responding to cyberbullying evidence that something did not have the ■ Useful information for parents on current technology and expected effect. Isn’t that what scientific popular websites research is about? u ■ Guidance on the role of counselors in prevention, Sheri Bauman is associate intervention, and advocacy professor and director of the ■ Chapter on adult cyberbullying school counseling program at the ■ List of helpful websites, books, and media University of Arizona, editor of the ■ Appendix with review of the latest cyberbullying research Journal for Specialists in Group Work and author of Cyberbullying: What Order #72900 - ÊÇn£xxÈÓäÓ{ä Counselors Need to Know. Contact her at [email protected]. ÃÌÊ*ÀVi\ÊfÓ°xÊ ACA Member Price: $24.95 Please include $8.75 for shipping of the first book To subscribe to the journals and $1.00 for each additional book. mentioned in this article, call 800.633.4931. American Counseling Association nää{ÓÓÓÈ{nÊÝÓÓÓÊUÊVÕÃi}°À} Letters to the editor: [email protected]
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 25 The Digital Psyway - By Marty Jencius
Secure and orderly digital lives
he way counselors and name of “research” and staying current. storage and paid options for greater academics have managed This month’s column will focus on amounts of storage. Among the common Ttheir computer-generated information management: how we store cloud storage services are Dropbox, information has changed during the past it, how we back it up and how we Box.net, Skydrive, Uploadingit, iDisk 40 years. As an undergraduate research retrieve it. and LiveMesh. assistant in 1977, my introduction to Cloud storage n What cloud storage is: tinyurl. computers involved sorting through Cloud storage is the outsourcing of com/2dg7rk4 hundreds of computer punch cards in data storage to an external source. Unlike n How cloud storage works: tinyurl. long boxes. A doctoral student ran the older methods that used a physical com/28uygo7 cards through a card reader to generate medium (floppy disks, jump drives, hard a long printout of data. He would n Review of common cloud storage: drives) that the user was responsible tinyurl.com/2fp9bxr later have to calculate most of the final for maintaining, cloud storage saves statistics by hand. data through an Internet connection n Choosing a cloud storage service: The papers I wrote in my master’s to a service that manages the material tinyurl.com/53z6u7 program were done on an early personal on its storage device. Cloud providers computer and stored on cassette tape. keep the information protected through Backup services Later, when I entered my doctoral encryption (only you have access) and Cloud computing allows you to program, I convinced my wife that I redundancy (if one of their media drives effectively increase your file storage by needed a PC to complete my degree. breaks, other copies can regenerate your providing you with additional storage Since that time, I have stored information data). One advantage of cloud storage offsite. It is also advisable to look at on five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks, is that your information can be accessed a backup service for your complete then three-and-a-half-inch disks, zip at any computer with an Internet computer drive and operating system. drives, CD-ROMs, DVDs, flash drives connection. The cloud storage device Approximately 42 percent of data loss and external hard drives. I have boxes of appears as an icon, folder or drive that is due to mechanical error, while 34 old data storage media in my basement you access from your desktop or from percent is because of human error. You in formats that do not fit my current portable devices such as smartphones can use external hard drives, DVDs and computer configuration. The trend and iPads. You can still copy and carry other traditional media for backup, or toward using cloud storage has trumped data on portable media from one site to you can use a portion of your drive to all of this physical media. another, but in many cases, the need for create a mirrored image, but if you keep It is not just the change in storage carrying a keychain full of flash drives is these resources at the same location as itself that has occurred with computing eliminated because you can access your your computer, the data will still be at but also how we manage and organize cloud via the web. risk if there is a fire or other damage. information we find along the Digital When considering cloud storage Additionally, some people use rollback Psyway. Through the years, the services, you need to assess the sensitivity services such as Time Machine that information available on the Internet has and security of the data with which you capture changed files and allow users to grown exponentially, so today’s tools are are working. Cloud storage has helped me go back to earlier versions of the data. as much about managing content as they organize my documents. I create folders Growing in popularity are cloud are about creating content. How do we in my cloud for the courses I teach, the backup services in which a mirror remember that website we will want to presentations I give and the projects I image of your drive is saved offsite and reference later, the document we want am working on. I work directly with the simultaneously updated as you change, to read tomorrow or the password or documents in the cloud, so if I go from add or delete files on your desktop drive. login we only need occasionally? One of my home to my office, I know that the The backup runs as a background service. the pleasures of writing this column is latest version of the document is stored It can take a few weeks to a month for the that, as a technophile, I get to search the in the cloud. Numerous services are initial backup to capture the entire drive. Internet and spend time trying out new available for consumers. Many of these From that point on, however, the backup technology and software — all in the services have free options for limited runs simultaneously.
26 | Counseling Today | December 2010 n Ways to start your backup plan: that provides a similar organizing low-cost data organizing tools. tinyurl.com/38dlb9o tool. Other information tools include My transition from saving everything Google Notebook, DEVONthink, Zoho n Carbonite: carbonite.com on my main computer drive and on Notebook, Voodoo Pad, Together and floppy disks to offsite services has helped n Crashplan: b2.crashplan.com Notebook. me organize my digital work life while n Mozy: mozy.com n Organizing tools: tinyurl.com/2e2h9dw feeling secure that the content I produce n Time Machine: tinyurl.com/lx4bzs n Yojimbo: tinyurl.com/2ovqpw will be available for me in an increasingly n Evernote: Data organizing tools evernote.com mobile environment. Using data organizing tools has created n Google Notebook alternatives: a dramatic change in my workflow as a tinyurl.com/btu8ll w professional. For The Digital Psyway n Even more Google Notebook columns, I scan the Internet for particular alternatives: tinyurl.com/c3ln6n topics, and when I run across a pertinent Did we miss something? Submit article or website, I need an organizing Data backup strategy your suggestions to [email protected]. system to save these elements for later Experts will tell you that the best data You can find these and other links on use. One of the best data organizing tools strategy involves multiple levels. You The Digital Psyway companion site at I have found for the Mac is Yojimbo, should back up your computing system digitalpsyway.net. u which allows me to grab the website and, in the optimal scenario, save the URL, the PDF document, a software backups offsite. This would mean using a license number or the graphic and drop cloud service and, for essential data, also Marty Jencius is an associate it into the program, where I can then saving it on physical media at another professor of counseling and human tag it and organize it into subfolders. location. For workflow convenience and development services at Kent State Yojimbo recently released an iPad app redundancy, you might want to consider University. to sync with the desktop and support a a cloud storage system for your currently mobile environment. On the PC side active files. To organize and save your (and also usable with Macs), Evernote websites, documents, passwords and Letters to the editor: [email protected] is an excellent free web-based service other content, consider one of the free or
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Untitled-1 1 December 2010 | Counseling 9/1/10Today 12:13 | 27PM ACA Blog Sampler - By Stephanie Ann Adams
Humor in counseling
have one client who reminds his that he’s going to the “crazy doctor.” You hear that therapy is a depressing friends he can’t do anything with Some clients may use humor as self- job. I don’t think so. I think it’s one of Ithem on our appointment days defense and, for them, you would have the most positive jobs out there. Yes, you because he’s going to the “crazy doctor.” to call them on it rather than participate deal with a lot of pain and, sometimes, Another woman I see cheerfully asks her in it. But with this particular client, you suffer along with your client. But husband if he can run by the pharmacy I happen to know he takes therapy you get to be there to help them through for her because she’s almost out of her seriously. For him, it’s just a way to it. My favorite kind of stories (fiction “happy pills.” Other clients have come balance the darkness he wades through in or nonfiction) are the ones in which the into my office for the first time and session with a little light. And don’t we all protagonist excels through trial and, by means of personal strength, is able to “complained” that I didn’t have a fainting need that sometimes? overcome. At my work, I get to not only couch. Though these words might seem a Here, I must insert all the necessary watch people live out these stories, but little flippant to some, I disagree. I think caveats in regard to humor in counseling: participate in helping them get there. it’s a good thing to have a sense of humor Be careful not to make fun of a person’s in the counseling office. Who wouldn’t have fun with a job like race or religion, and it’s probably a good This position is historically well- that? idea to be very, very cautious about supported. Just search the words humor w jokes on any disorder they might have. and counseling in a quality research But, these exceptions aside, I think it database, and you will return a decent can be very heartening for the client to Visit my.counseling.org to read other number of hits. For me, it just comes blog posts written by ACA members. u naturally. I come from a joking and remember that they are entering into an sarcastic family, so for me, it would be exploration of their problems in order strange not to incorporate some of that to heal from them and have a better life. attitude into my personal counseling There is fun out there for them. style. The use of humor lets our clients know Stephanie Ann Adams is a Humor can immediately create rapport that this experience of therapy may not counselor who believes in the and humanize us as counselors. It says be as horrible as they thought it would ability of the mind to understand that we are on the same level as our be. It can remind us that healing is not and change behaviors and in each clients are, and we understand where just the absence of problems but the person’s power to create the life they’re coming from. In this way, it can development through those problems that he or she wants. Visit her blog reduce the embarrassment of coming in into a fuller, better life. I think counselors at sassynsane.blogspot.com. to “get help.” I believe that is why my and their clients need that from time to client in the first example tells his friends time.
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 29 Five ACA members discuss their efforts to reach out to and connect with client populations at risk of being overlooked and underserved
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o ethical counselor enters the Rollins College, Paladino says he felt his profession and anticipates “differentness” every day at school. The Nskipping over or ignoring discriminatory remarks he heard from a group in need of help. But in reality, other kids didn’t help. some client populations aren’t easily Paladino’s mother, who was religious, reached or don’t readily avail themselves would remind him to say his prayers at of counseling services. And others are night. After shutting his eyes and wishing simply overlooked, for one reason or to look a little more like his father and another. everyone else at school, Paladino would To shed light on a few of these wake up each morning and walk to an underserved groups, Counseling Today oval mirror in the hallway. “I would look, asked five American Counseling and I wouldn’t be White, and I would Association members to share their feel the disappointment,” says Paladino, experiences of actively reaching out to, coauthor with Richard Henriksen Jr. of connecting with and advocating for client Counseling Multiple Heritage Individuals, populations that too often fly under the Couples and Families, which is published radar. by ACA. Even when he entered college at the Multiracial clients University of Florida, Paladino didn’t At times, Derrick Paladino still gets feel like he fit in anywhere. He received choked up talking about the prayer he invitations to join Latino student groups would say nightly while in elementary but felt like a fraud because he didn’t school. It was a prayer offered by a little speak Spanish fluently. “I wasn’t whole of boy who desperately wanted to fit in. “I anything,” he says. wish I woke up White,” he would pray But a few years later, sitting in a before going to sleep. multicultural counseling class in his At that point, Paladino, whose master’s program at Florida, he read mother was born in Puerto Rico and about a biracial identity model developed whose father was second-generation by Carlos Poston. It became Paladino’s Italian American, was the only non- “aha” moment. “It was me on paper,” White student at his school in a small says Paladino, who also runs a private Connecticut town. Now an assistant practice in Winter Park, Fla. “It was professor and chair of the Department making sense of how I pushed away of Graduate Studies in Counseling at from my mom, because being brown
30 | Counseling Today | December 2010 was bad where I lived, and how I figured out how to navigate through life and my environments. It was a moment of change when I figured out, ‘I need to focus on who I am and how this identity affects me, and I need to do more with it.’ I could then also celebrate my multiracial identity and see the strengths that come with it.” Looking back, Paladino says he didn’t understand what he was going through until stumbling across the topic in his master’s program. “We’re invisible,” says Paladino, who gets a wide variety of responses when he asks students in some of his classes to write down what they think his race/ethnicity is. “We sort of fade into an invisible population. I don’t think it’s intentional that we’ve been underserved, I think it’s just how it’s been. It only becomes intentional Derrick Paladino, center, uses his own struggles as a biracial individual to reach out to others. when the population is recognized and nothing is done, which can occur with he might identify as biracial, others race, and Paladino says the response was those who have a bias against interracial might identify as multiple heritage. The significant — more than 6.8 million relationships, transracial adoption and concept goes beyond race to include people identified as multiracial. multiracial individuals.” culture and religion as well, he says. As part of his dissertation in 2004, People identify themselves differently, The 2000 Census was the first to allow Paladino conducted a national study 10929-Counseling Today:5952_Ad 8/10/10 12:05 PM Page 1 says Paladino, who explains that while respondents to check off more than one on alienation, cultural congruity and
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 31 self-concept of multiple-heritage college students. It was one of the first studies conducted on the topic of multiple- heritage experiences. “We found all these biracial and multiracial support Counseling Multiple Heritage groups around the nation,” he says. “But what we found was, even in the support Individuals, Couples, groups, the multiracial students were still doing worse. It showed this population and Families was still struggling.” As he was growing up, Paladino Richard C. Henriksen, Jr. remembers lacking someone to confide in and Derrick A. Paladino when he was feeling like an outsider. “I didn’t know where to go. I couldn’t talk to my parents because they were of one “This informative and all- race, so they couldn’t share my experience inclusive text underscores the with me. For a lot of these individuals, it complex and comprehensive can be a very solitary life. Unless people nature of counseling multiple reach out and say, ‘I can understand heritage individuals, couples, what you’re going through. Let me offer and families. For the novice a place where you can let that out,’ they as well as the seasoned may be holding onto it. We need to stand practitioner, this book offers an up as mental health professionals and do opportunity to enhance self-awareness, impact practices, and some social justice and advocacy work for advocate for those without a voice.” these individuals.” —Marie A. Wakefield In 2009, Paladino created a student ACA President, 2006–2007 group to actively address these needs on the Rollins campus. Named the Multiethnic Student Society by the This book examines the strengths of and the challenges students, the group provides a space facing multiple heritage individuals, couples, and families for its roughly 15 members to have and offers a framework for best practice counseling conversations and share details about services and interventions specifically designed to meet their cultures. The group has also their needs. Topics covered include historical and current sponsored campus panels on the topics racial classification systems and their effects; identity of interfaith and interracial couples. development; transracial adoptions; and counseling Paladino hopes the group’s work at strategies for children, adolescents, college students, the college will reach those who need adults, couples and families, and GLBT individuals. support. Poignant case studies illustrate important concepts and Paladino’s focus is on reaching out techniques throughout the book, and chapter review to multiracial students on campus and raising awareness of the needs of questions provide a starting point for lively classroom multiracial individuals among future `ÃVÕÃðÊÓääÊUÊÓÎxÊ«>}iÃÊÊ counselors. He says private practitioners would do well to add the identity topic Order #72883ÊNÊ- ÊÇn£xxÈÓäÓÇÇÊÊ to their websites, visit community groups ÃÌÊ*ÀVi\Êf{{°xÊNÊACA Member Price: $33.95 such as Swirl (swirlinc.org), which has mixed-race community chapters, and Please include $8.75 for shipping of the first book and reach out to this population through $1.00 for each additional book. social media, such as the Facebook pages maintained by multicultural groups. Counselor educators should be deliberate American Counseling Association about addressing this population when 800-422-2648 x222 teaching multicultural classes and consider counseling.org bringing in guest speakers, he adds. It’s a good idea for counselors to allow clients to “check all that apply” for race/ ethnicity questions on the intake form, Paladino says. “This allows individuals to
32 | Counseling Today | December 2010 be all that they are and gives them a voice right from the beginning.” But never assume that a client who is multiracial NATIONALLY is coming in to address identity issues, CERTIFIED he cautions. “Focus on their presenting NATIONALLY problem first and just be with them. PARENTING From there you will find out if identity CERTIFIED is something that is connected to their COORDINATOR issue.” Kathryn Russ PARENTING With clients who do come to community colleges to offer a two- (NCPC) counseling to work on identity issues, COORDI NATOR
year master’s program in mental health Paladino uses bibliotherapy, steers them CREDENTIALING CRITERIA counseling. toward websites that help them see (NC PC)
“People of Appalachian culture prefer Doctoral or Masters Degree they’re not alone and encourages them to explore all sides of their racial and to attend classes near home, and by CREDENTIALINGAND; CRITERIA cultural heritage, which might mean training local people, we provide trained (ONE of the following): professionals for these underserved Doctoral or Masters Degree engaging in discussions with family (1) State Licensed or areas,” says Russ, who teaches at a AND; members, immersing themselves in each (2) Current member of a handful of LWC’s extended campuses (ONE of the following): heritage or joining cultural groups. In mental health association or and serves as clinical supervisor for the (1) State Licensed or addition, he says, “I like to let them (3) Two years working with a Maysville, Ky., site. “Our graduates (2) Current member of a just have a place to vent and feel like family court system tend to stay in the ‘home’ territory and mental health association or there is nothing wrong with them. Just AND; A minimum of two work in local schools, public and private (3) Two years working with a empathize with the struggle.” years experience working mental health agencies, women’s shelters with familyat least court five setssystem of high w and drug rehab organizations.” conflictAND; Aor minimum litigating ofparents, two ACA offers a free Multiracial/ People rooted in Appalachian yearsproviding experience services working Multiethnic Counseling Concerns Interest culture tend to score higher in levels withdescribed at least five by sets various of high conflict or litigating parents, Network for interested members. The of depression and somatization in designations, providing services facilitator is Kelley Kenney (kelleyrkenney@ comparison with average Americans, INCLUDING, BUT NOT described by various comcast.net). To join the interest network, Russ says. “For practical purposes, this LIMITED TO: designations, e-mail Holly Clubb at ACA at hclubb@ indicates that people of Appalachian parenting coordinator, INCLUDING, BUT NOT counseling.org. culture need mental health assistance. reunification therapist, People who are depressed tend to not familyLIMITED coordinator, TO: Appalachian culture form optimal parenting bonds, which parentingmediator, coordinator, etc.; Plain and simple, too few mental means intergenerational problems. They ANDreunification; 2 Endorsement therapist, Memos health counselors are available in also tend to self-medicate with alcohol family_____ coordinator,______Appalachian communities, says Kathryn and drugs. The heightened somatization mediator, etc.; Russ, assistant professor and regional AND; 2 Endorsement Memos scores often mean that people go VANGUARD PERIOD academic director in the School of ______to their medical doctor for relief of OFFERS “FAST-TRACK” Professional Counseling at Lindsey symptomatology and are prescribed APPLICATION AND Wilson College (LWC). But Russ and medications, [which] too often become DISCOUNTEDVANGUARD PROCESSING PERIOD LWC are aiming to change that — one addictive.” OFFERS______“FAST-TRACK” well-educated counselor at a time. Counselors stand the best chance APPLICATION AND
While earning her doctorate at the of making a difference in these tight- DISCOUNTED PROCESSING University of Cincinnati, Russ completed knit communities by simply placing Application______and an internship at a community clinic in themselves there, getting involved in Full Information at: Appalachia, a cultural region that runs the life of the community and actively www.pacehelp.comApplication and along the central and southern portions reaching out, Russ says. “Word of mouth of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching Full Information at: is very important. If the client knows PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY OF from southern New York to northern of the counselor, has family that knows www.pacehelp.comCUSTODY EVALUATORS (PACE) Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. She the therapist, or if they hear about ~SINCE 1991~ developed a passion for the culture and the counselor through their church PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY OF became intrigued by what worked — and community, for example, the client is CUSTODY800-633 EVALUATORS-PACE (7223 (PACE)) what didn’t — when it came to delivering much more likely to seek professional ~SINCE 1991~ counseling services in Appalachian help if the need arises. This means that 800-633-PACE (7223) communities. About four years ago, she counselors cannot just sit in their office was drawn to LWC mainly because of its waiting for people to come in.” To begin strong Appalachian student culture and establishing bonds with the people of its initiative to partner with local Appalachia, Russ recommends that
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 33 counselors volunteer in the community, give talks at community gatherings or attend social gatherings at local churches. Another key to helping, Russ says, is to train local people to become counselors because they’re already part of the community’s kinship circle. “Career counseling is another great way to approach people because it is socially acceptable and there is no stigma involved,” Russ says. Another means of access is collaborating with drug rehab centers and shelters. “The client has usually formed a relationship with the referring agency,” Russ says, “and their stamp of approval makes the client feel safer in coming to you for therapy.” A few years ago, Russ decided to investigate the most effective ways for students and counselors to work within the Appalachian culture. Many of her David Hof, far right, travels with a group of counseling students to South Dakota’s Pine Ridge findings emerged from observations Reservation every year to expose them to Native American culture. made at a community counseling clinic in Ashland, Ky., but Russ also worked Otherwise, they may feel you have gotten of students to the Pine Ridge Reservation with other LWC faculty members and ‘above your raising,’ which is a big no- in the southwest corner of South Dakota. spoke with former clients who had no in this culture. They frequently don’t Hof and his students don’t go with the chosen not to return to LWC clinics as like being asked direct questions. For intent of scheduling one-hour sessions or well as those who decided to continue example, rather than saying, ‘What did diagnosing tribe members with mental therapy. From that research, she you do this past weekend?’ you might disorders. They go with the goal of developed a bullet list of advice. Among say, ‘We had some great weather this developing relationships with the people her tips for counselors: Active listening last weekend. Hope you enjoyed it.’ The on the reservation, normalizing the is very important; try to see the client’s person being addressed then has a choice concept of counseling and teaching the perspective; include family, community of saying yes or no and sharing what they graduate students about Native American and church in interventions whenever did — but they don’t have to if they don’t culture. The hope is that the experience possible. want to. Silence, which can be very hard, will help the counselors-in-training Russ offers a wealth of other is a good method to use. You sometimes to develop into culturally aware and information to counselors who encounter have to wait a long time for a response, culturally effective care providers. clients with roots in Appalachia. At the but it is worth waiting for.” The eighth-largest reservation in the top of the list? Not being overly task Russ, who uses people-oriented, nation, Pine Ridge, which is home to the oriented, she says. “It is necessary to cognitive behavioral, narrative and reality Oglala Lakota tribe, is also the poorest. always chat first, then go on with therapy. therapies with clients of Appalachian Hof calls the reservation’s inhabitants This is how you show respect for them as culture, says confidentiality is of the “one of the most underserved, oppressed people.” utmost importance in building and populations in the U.S.” To back that up, Russ also recommends some level of maintaining the counselor/client he points to a 2006 article that produced self-disclosure. “I don’t mean telling relationship with this population. “If startling statistics: Teenage suicide rates everything about yourself. Just let people they trust you with a family secret, to on the reservation are 150 percent know that you are a spouse or a parent, them, that’s like being given the family higher than the national average, infant that you like to garden or you love lemon jewel. They don’t share family secrets, mortality is 300 percent higher than the meringue pie. People of Appalachian so if they do with a therapist, the client national average, the school dropout rate culture need and want this type of needs to be absolutely certain that it’s not exceeds 70 percent, and more than half background information. It lets them going to go any further.” of the reservation’s adults battle addiction know you are somebody like them, and and disease. that makes them feel safer, that you can Native Americans Hof, who also works in private practice relate to them.” Every year for the past four years, and is a past chair of ACA’s Midwest Counselors should be wary of David Hof, an associate professor in Region, had what he calls a mainly coming across as an expert or “know- the Counseling and School Psychology Caucasian Midwest upbringing. But it-all” to these clients, Russ cautions. Department at the University of he developed a friendship with a fellow “Nondirective works much better. Nebraska at Kearney, has taken a group master’s student from Pine Ridge and
34 | Counseling Today | December 2010 then went on to complete an internship is delusional, on drugs or making up From his years of experience visiting at a reservation in Minnesota while stories. Counselors must allow space for the reservation, Hof has learned that the earning his doctorate from the University Native American clients to share their most effective counselor works as part of of South Dakota. When he arrived at the feelings and experiences without feeling the system instead of operating outside of University of Nebraska at Kearney 12 judged, Hof emphasizes. it. “It is our belief that by understanding years ago, Hof quickly realized exposing People on the reservation are more a person’s culture and having a counseling students to Native American likely to go to a family member or a willingness to work in the context of culture would be beneficial. medicine man rather than go outside their culture, there is a better chance of Advocacy equates to service in the culture or reservation for help, Hof having a meaningful interaction,” he the counseling profession, says Hof, says. That means counselors working says. “That’s really nothing new — just who adds that he’s inspired to help with Native American clients might good multicultural counseling skills.” not only because of the reservation’s want to consider collaborating with Dual minorities close proximity to the university and service providers on the reservation Dustin Shepler reflects on a 16-year- desperate need for mental health services or close by. “To work with a medicine old male client’s struggle with being but because it’s part of the counseling man or to include dialogue and work a dual minority. “He felt that while profession’s mission. “It’s not a choice,” around the seven sacred rites” — seven his sexual minority and his biracial he says. “It is ethically our responsibility sacred ceremonies that include the identities were both acceptable to him, to advocate for underserved populations.” sweat lodge and vision quest — “can be others discounted the sincerity of his So each August, Hof’s student group critical to change,” he says. The job of identification with his gay identity heads to Pine Ridge for a little less than the counselor advocate, Hof continues, because of his age, and others minimized a week. They stay on the reservation might involve connecting the client with his biracial heritage because of his light with Dallas Chief Eagle, a storyteller, appropriate services. “If my client has skin tone,” says Shepler, a doctoral touring artist and director of the Hoop been trained in the Lakota way, it may student in counseling psychology and Dance Academy. What’s most important, be necessary for them to participate in guidance services at Ball State University. Dallas Chief Eagle tells Hof, is that the a sweat lodge or a sun dance to achieve “The key to working with this teen was students come, listen, learn about the wellness. To be able to suspend judgment validating both identities and giving culture and then share that increased and understand behavior in the context him time to talk about the parts of his understanding with others. On the of culture seems critical.” heritage that others had ignored, but at most recent visit, Hof and the students Counselors might assume that a the same time, not minimizing his other participated in a three-and-a-half-hour client-centered approach based on the concerns about sexual behavior and sweat lodge ceremony. The reservation’s relationship would work best with Native academic problems or reducing him to leaders don’t want the students to come Americans, but Hof says a more direct two labels.” as tourists, Hof says, but rather to approach that still retains an emphasis Thanks to his own identity participate in the rituals so they gain a on the relationship seems to be most development process and a strong deeper understanding of the community’s effective. “For mental health issues, interest in multicultural issues, Shepler culture. an individual might meet with their developed a passion for learning more Hof’s hope is that some of the medicine man for help,” Hof explains. “It about counseling dual-minority clients counseling students who take part in would not be out of the ordinary for the — those who claim both racial/ethnic the trips will develop a passion for the medicine man to prescribe participation and sexual minority membership status. “My experience working with clients culture and one day choose to provide in a sweat lodge or other traditional had made it apparent that people do not services on the reservation as a career. healing methods. In much the same way, only see themselves as one demographic But even for those who go on to work when an individual comes to counseling, label but instead switch seamlessly elsewhere, the trips provide a greater they may be looking for more direct between different facets of their identities understanding of the culture and should feedback on what they are to do for throughout counseling sessions,” says partially equip them to more effectively change to happen.” Shepler, who counsels clients at three treat Native American clients in various Dallas Chief Eagle has emphasized locations and teaches an undergraduate settings, Hof says. the importance of counselors simply sexuality course at Ball State. While on the reservation, Hof and his listening. “Please, please, please, just Advocating for groups that are students try to demystify the concept of be willing to hear their stories,” the sometimes overlooked, such as dual- counseling and refine it so that it will leader has told Hof. Dallas Chief Eagle’s minority clients, is essential, Shepler be more culturally acceptable to the advice is to refrain from diving straight says. “Advocacy and serving those who people of Pine Ridge. One of the most into treatment planning with Native are often pushed to the fringe of society frequent complaints his groups hear is Americans and instead to get to know provides ways to increase cultural that the mental health field is driven by who these people are and to form a understanding, serves as a basis for diagnosis, Hof says. If a client explains relationship with them. “That’s not developing more competent practice that he’s hearing his ancestors talk to dissimilar to what counselors do anyway,” guidelines by including members of him, a counselor unfamiliar with Native Hof says, “but to have that context in communities for which treatments are American culture might think the client mind is significant.” designed and improves the mental health
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 35 the skills that are mentioned in various on is key in helping clients establish courses is a great way to prepare them a strong working relationship and, I to become involved in outreach and believe, is essential in preventing early decrease fear surrounding issues that have termination.” historically been politically charged.” Counselors need to realize that in When beginning work with any many racial and ethnic minority cultures, client, Shepler recommends having sexuality and gender expression are an open discussion about the client’s viewed as inseparable, which affects the Dustin Shepler expectations as well as your expectations language the client uses, Shepler says. as the counselor. “I also assess clients’ “When same-sex-attracted clients from of different communities, which is good racial and sexual identity development racial minority groups reject a GLB label for all in our society. With advocacy, statuses in order to tailor treatment and while still discussing same-sex attractions everybody wins.” approach topics in a manner consistent or sexual behaviors, counselors may To reach out to this group, Shepler with how clients see the world from their erroneously assume that clients are started a safe place for gay/lesbian/ own developmental perspectives. Usually in the early stages of developing a bisexual/transgender/queer (GLBTQ) this involves listening for race-based and sexual minority identity and resort to students at Earlham University, where sexuality-based comments. Most recently, typically ‘White’ ways of labeling sexual he is completing an external practicum. one of my clients discussed how LGBT orientation, causing them to refer to He contacted the leaders of a GLBTQ allies ‘were trying to claim a status’ clients as gay, lesbian or bisexual, even campus organization to find out what [for] which they couldn’t appreciate the when the client rejects such labels.” counseling services might be of use, complexity or experience of being — i.e., Using language consistent with how and they allowed Shepler access to their LGBT. This is an indication that she is the client sees himself — for example electronic mailing list. The eventual still in a state of emersion/immersion or, result was the formation of a GLBTQ “down low” or even straight — is discussion and support group. to use [Vivienne] Cass’ term, pride.” important, Shepler says. Overlap in In addition, Shepler is investigating Further into counseling, recognizing sexual orientation and gender identity the possibility of developing an online and exploring experiences of oppression might cause some clients to maintain a community to better reach international is an excellent way to understand how a straight identity even alongside same- students at Earlham. “Many international client perceives his or her life experiences, sex attractions and relationships. “One students struggle about being openly Shepler says. “Dual-minority clients are way to address this issue,” he says, “is by out about their sexual orientation on often left wondering if it was their race/ asking clients about their sexual past, not college campuses because they fear other ethnicity or their sexual orientation just assuming that a label holds similar students from their home country will that caused someone else to react in meaning for both White and racial find out and ‘report’ the information a discriminatory way, and exploring minority clients.” to others in their country of origin,” he this in counseling can be an invaluable Regardless of his clients’ racial and says. “This makes it especially difficult experience. While White GLB people or sexual identity status, Shepler tends for this specific type of dual-minority racial minorities are left to wonder about to blend systems theory, interpersonal student to interact within the GLBTQ discrimination, the added layer of a theory and some feminist principles in community and receive affirmation as a dual-minority identity is something that his counseling. “When used together, it sexual or gender minority.” is sometimes difficult for GLB people becomes possible to examine the multiple Although it’s important for counselors of color to discuss with White GLB oppressions experienced by dual-minority to build relationships with members community members, just as it is difficult clients on both the systematic or societal of minority communities, Shepler says for many White GLB people to discuss level, as well as the interactions between few counselor education programs teach instances of perceived discrimination myself and the client, to make sure that counselors-in-training how to accomplish with heterosexual friends. The added the client’s needs are being met.” that. “Learning how to build community layer of ambiguity coupled with feelings To his fellow counselors, Shepler ties and improve outreach effectiveness of discomfort and possible fear of stresses the importance of reaching out. based on research should better be disclosing a sexual minority identity “When I begin working in any new incorporated into counseling preparation within a racial/ethnic community leaves setting, the first thing I do is consult with programs,” he says. “Supervisors also individuals with few resources from clinicians who have been there for some have a unique opportunity to improve which they can gain support.” time and likely have some knowledge of supervisee competency by engaging Shepler discloses his own identity as the clientele, even if they do not have in and modeling how to discuss race, a gay man when working with sexual strong relationships with either racial sexuality and gender.” In his own role minority clients and emphasizes that, or sexual minority communities.” The as a supervisor, Shepler has noticed that although he is White, he is open to race- next step is reaching out to leaders in master’s students are often uncomfortable based discussions. “I believe it is the the community, he says. “Eliciting the at the start of these discussions but counselor’s responsibility to be willing approval of community leaders may be grateful for the training by the end. to introduce sensitive topics. Opening more important in some communities “Working with students to actually learn the door to difficult discussions early than others. Nonetheless, fostering such
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 37 a relationship by listening to leaders discuss progress, needs and concerns. and community members, as well as Mudge and Henderson also visit the offering support and possibly services schools throughout the year. for communitywide programs, not just The first summer session kicked off dual-minority community members, in 2009 with about 20 counselors and shows a real commitment to helping counselors-in-training, and the focus a community instead of just wanting was on creating a guidance curriculum to build a clientele or fill slots on an for freshman students. “Counselors appointment calendar.” Suzanne Mudge are taught how to align the guidance lessons with guidance content, academic Underserved students would equip counselors in the program standards and college and career readiness Suzanne Mudge, associate professor to go out and train other counselors in standards, while focusing on equity and in the Leadership and Counseling their districts. access issues surrounding postsecondary Department at Texas A&M University– Three high schools in San Antonio opportunities for underserved/ San Antonio, doesn’t think college is — two in the Northside Independent underrepresented students,” Mudge says. necessarily the right choice for every School District and one in the San This past summer’s session added individual. “But,” she says, “everyone Antonio Independent School District — a focus on responsive services and should be able to choose whether they were selected to be part of the program. emphasized small-group counseling want to participate or not.” These schools include a high percentage and remediation of developmental Creating a college-going culture of free- and reduced-lunch students, skills that the students needed, is one focus of a grant that AT&T many of whom would be the first in their Mudge says. Future summers will add awarded Mudge and her colleague families to attend college. “We picked developmentally appropriate sessions Patricia Henderson to improve the neediest schools,” says Mudge, who designed by participating counselors for counseling services for underserved spent 25 years as a teacher and school high school juniors and seniors, while students. AT&T’s original idea behind counselor. guidance lessons and individualized the $500,000 grant was to provide School counselors from the three high student planning will continue to other types of counselors to schools in schools aren’t the only ones receiving emphasize college and career readiness addition to the already existing pool of training. Part of the grant provides and postsecondary planning, Mudge says. school counselors. Mudge, who won the scholarships for graduate students The school counselors aren’t given exact, grant while working at Our Lady of the who want to train to become school word-by-word curriculums to follow Lake University, had a different idea. counselors, and priority is given to throughout the year. Instead, Mudge Because school counselors are trained as teachers within these participating says, the program teaches the counselors professional counselors, the schools didn’t schools, says Mudge, who explains that how to develop the material on the basis need to be fortified with other types two years of teaching are required to of each school’s specific needs. of counselors “to do the counseling,” become a school counselor in Texas. In more affluent school districts, she told AT&T, but the existing school The objective of the grant and summer students are more likely to receive counselors would benefit from receiving training, Mudge says, is four-pronged: counseling services privately when additional support. AT&T agreed, and improving services to students, increasing needed, Mudge says. But in lower- the mission evolved into designing four resources for school counselors, assisting income areas such as the ones this grant years of a comprehensive developmental with the development of the professional is focusing on, school counselors might guidance program aimed at underserved school counselor identity and assisting be the only available option for students. students. The curriculums would then with program implementation. In “So it’s important that school counselors be taught to school counselors over four addition to summer training sessions, provide the best services they can because consecutive summers. A fifth summer meetings are held during the year to they might be the only services that
38 | Counseling Today | December 2010 student ever receives,” she says. those students then go home to families are and then address those concerns.” For The program’s guidance curriculum that view employment as the top priority, example, if a student’s parents say they adheres to a wellness model and aims to it can lead to very frustrated teenagers, can’t afford to send their child to college, be in concert with the developmental Mudge says. “Every day, that kid comes talk about financial options. If they’re stages of adolescents, Mudge says, from a home that has a different set worried their child won’t be safe, Mudge which means understanding the skills of values and a different vision than might recommend that the family visit those students might need in the near the counselors experience. You need to the college campus and look at police future and then going into classrooms dig deep [to] understand the context reports. Whatever the situation, school and teaching those skills. “The the student comes from so you can counselors should discuss the vision guidance curriculum is anticipating the appropriately serve them.” parents have for their child and the best developmental snags that come along the Part of serving these families means avenue to follow to turn that vision into way and teaching skills so that students recognizing that upbringing and reality, Mudge says. aren’t snagged, so that they’re able to providing options, says Mudge, who is Throughout the process, school transition to the next level appropriately in the process of planning college and counselors must be careful not to give the and easily.” career information sessions for students’ impression that they are trying to strip An important part of the high school families at the three high schools. “The parents of their power, Mudge says. “You experience is thinking about college, choice comes through education,” she don’t tell them, ‘This is what you need Mudge says, so preparing students to says. “The family can be educated along to do for your child to be successful.’ Tell carefully consider that decision is a with the students.” That might mean them, ‘Your child is interested in this. major emphasis of her message to school showing comparative salaries for high This is what we have been talking about,’ counselors. She tells counselors to first school-educated versus college-educated and then ask [the parents] what they aim to understand and appreciate the graduates and explaining scholarship and think.” u environments their students are coming financial aid options, she says. from. In the San Antonio area, many It’s also vitally important to have an Lynne Shallcross is a senior writer students come from families with open-door policy, Mudge says. “The best for Counseling Today. Contact her limited education that haven’t previously way is to know the community in which at [email protected]. you live and to have opportunities for experienced the path to college. When Letters to the editor: teachers and school counselors encourage families to come on your [high-school] [email protected] students about college at school and campus to talk about what their concerns
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 39 Reader Viewpoint - By Selma D. Yznaga and Manuel Zamarripa Counselors’ response to Mexican immigration
n April, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer border. For Mexico, it meant that the families who need basic provisions such signed state Senate Bill 1070, grains that had previously sustained the as food and shelter. They must comply Iallowing law enforcement officers Mexican agricultural trade could now be with American compulsory education, so to question the citizenship status of imported from the United States at much we must educate their children. In short, any individual suspected of being in cheaper prices, causing Mexican farmers they have the same basic needs that we the country illegally. The law created to abandon their land in search of work. have as American citizens. Unfortunately, a dichotomous reaction among states They came north to the border, where their employers don’t cover these “extras.” and individuals and temporarily hurled jobs were promised in the maquiladoras, U.S. taxpayers do. In the process, the debate onto the front pages of or U.S. manufacturing plants. So many Mexican immigrants, rather than the newspapers, magazines and websites. farmers fled to the border, however, that corporations, have become scapegoats for In writing this article, we want to even the massive maquiladora system a nation that is frustrated and resentful of offer some contextual information, could not absorb them. Those lucky hosting this growing labor force. raise awareness concerning Mexican enough to find work at the border are One frequently asked question is why immigration and provide counselors with often exploited by low pay and deplorable Mexicans do not immigrate legally. culturally competent treatment options working conditions. According to a U.S. immigration quotas are not and advocacy strategies on behalf of this report by Bill Bigelow in 2006, although commensurate with our demand for population. NAFTA benefits U.S. and Canadian labor. The process for legal immigration The immigration debate is complex corporations, it is an economic disaster to this country is economically and and beyond the scope of this publication. for poor Mexicans and has contributed temporally prohibitive for the majority of The thoughts that follow are informed greatly to the immigration tidal wave. Mexican immigrants, whose very survival by a human rights and social justice The same demand for cheap labor is depends on it. Legalization would also framework, not a politically partisan evident on the U.S. side of the border place the burden of “extras,” such as perspective. Thus, we believe this article as well. U.S. corporations save millions health care, on the corporations, thus is relevant for all counselors. by paying only the minimum wage. increasing their production costs and Although it is true that government reducing profits. Why do they come? sanctions exist against corporations that Immigrants pay regular income taxes Historically, Mexico has been an hire illegal immigrants, these sanctions to a system that will never repay them. economically unstable country, but it has are rarely imposed. In fact, a recent With counterfeit Social Security and never been as destitute as it is now, due Texas Monthly article quipped that when tax identification numbers, their taxes in large part to the consequences of the immigrants arrive at the border, they find go into the Social Security system’s North American Free Trade Agreement two signs. One says “Keep Out,” and the “earnings suspense file.” Federal and state (NAFTA) implemented in 1994. For the other says “Help Wanted.” governments benefit greatly from this United States, the benefit of NAFTA was Because these laborers are human, they model. Immigrants pay income taxes, to increase the flow of goods across the get sick and need health care. They have service taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes
40 | Counseling Today | December 2010 and real estate taxes. Alan Greenspan Effects of discrimination country without proper documentation. called illegal immigration a “net positive” The Arizona law reflects a growing Worksite raids performed by ICE often when asked to identify strategies to keep trend of ambivalence not only toward result in unauthorized workers being the Social Security system solvent. Mexicans who are in this country without transported to different states for holding Undocumented immigrants are authorization, but also toward U.S. before deportation. This separation of children from parents can be a relegated to using “mandated services” citizens of Mexican origin. According to a 2010 Pew Hispanic Center report and the traumatizing event. The event can signify such as emergency health care and the FBI, this trend has been documented by not only the loss of a caregiver, but often public safety system. Federal cutbacks the rise in hate crimes and an increased the loss of a familiar home as well. have placed the growing burden for perception of discrimination by Mexican In 2010, Jill McLeigh reported that these services on local governments, Americans. In Elena Flores et al’s 2008 one in five children with recently further fostering resentment and pushing study, “Perceived Discrimination, arrested parents had clinically significant states and local communities to take Perceived Stress, and Mental and Physical internalizing problems, such as depression matters into their own hands, such as Health Among Mexican-Origin Adults,” and anxiety; one in three had clinically with Arizona’s SB 1070 (requiring law the authors found that discrimination is a significant externalizing problems, such enforcement officers to determine citizen source of stress that goes beyond general as aggression and disruptive behavior. In addition, a Pew Hispanic Center survey status) and Nebraska’s Immigration Law stress. In addition, the combination in 2007 showed that the majority of 2010 (making it illegal for landlords to of both perceived discrimination and general stress negatively affects mental Latina/os who live in the United States rent to undocumented persons). Although fear that either they or someone they these laws might represent responses and physical health among individuals of Mexican origin. Latina/o youth in know will be deported. This climate of to a lack of federal intervention, it is particular report that discrimination is living in constant fear can be detrimental undocumented workers — in most cases, to the mental health and self-concept of pervasive and that it is associated with these children — immigrant or not. Mexican immigrants — who become depressive symptoms and low self-esteem. targets of discrimination and hate for In addition to the effects of perceived Interventions their mere presence, their use of basic discrimination, Immigration and In working with Latina/o immigrants, human services and their willingness to Customs Enforcement (ICE) practices emphasizing an approach that pays work under harsh conditions for little can significantly affect the mental health attention to stories and storytelling can remuneration. of children of immigrants who are in the be especially validating and empowering.
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42 | Counseling Today | December 2010 It is important for counselors to be is important to address specifically. and Development and the Latino aware and respectful of the cultural According to Lisa Edwards and Andrea Interest Network (within AMCD) are values of personalismo (a preference for a Romero, for many of these adolescents, a active in challenging systemic oppression more personal, although not necessarily strengthening of ethnic identity can serve and raising awareness of human rights informal, communication style) and as a protective factor against the negative injustices, including those involving familismo (an emphasis on the centrality effects of discrimination, particularly immigrants. Beyond the professional of family in individual lives), which are peer discrimination. So including and counseling relationship and community relevant for many Latina/o individuals promoting ethnic identity in counseling advocacy, counselors can take part in and families. and groups is crucial for this population. global change by joining national and The notions of cuentos (storytelling) It is also important to note that when international organizations that have and platica (small talk) may also be working with clients who are feeling the a significant presence and voice in culturally responsive methods for this effects of marginalization, we cannot immigration concerns. Among these population. When immigrant families simply help them “adjust” to an unjust organizations are the Southern Poverty can communicate via stories of their own situation. We need to help them find Law Center, Amnesty International, experiences, their comfort level may be ways to cope with discrimination, tap Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, facilitated. Joseph Cervantes and Lisa into sources of strength within their League of United Latin American Sweatt suggested that in this process, families and uncover stronger self- Citizens and the Pew Hispanic Center. the counselor needs to recognize not concepts. However, the cultural aspects It is critical that mental health only stories of loss and hardship but also within each of these areas should be professionals seek accurate information stories of resilience, strength and coping. emphasized. regarding the immigration debate My (Selma Yznaga’s) use of genograms In addition, the social justice rather than establishing values and with Mexican immigrants offers counseling model transcends the perceptions on the basis of what they one example of a direct counseling professional counseling relationship see or hear in the popular media. The intervention that addresses the to include advocacy for marginalized burgeoning Hispanic population is no importance of the immigration individuals, including those who longer contained in border states, and experience while utilizing family are not necessarily clients, in the it is possible that each of us will have strengths to functionally cope with the community. Advocacy can take the form contact with Mexican immigrants. Our psychological toll this process can have of participating in rallies, protests and response to laws such as Arizona’s SB on immigrants. Using the genogram in awareness campaigns that seek to change 1070 gives counselors an opportunity to this way helps in identifying past patterns the status quo, improve the daily living demonstrate our commitment to human in family functioning. In addition, it aids conditions and ensure basic human rights, not in an abstract, theoretical way, in locating exceptions, externalizing the rights for the immigrant population. but in our daily practices via micro-, problem and creating a focus on how to Counselors must be careful to avoid meso- and macro-system interventions. u incorporate these lessons for current and taking on a “missionary” posture that future functioning. might disempower recent immigrants by The explicit use of stories and suggesting that they need to be cared for storytelling that seems to complement by a U.S. citizen. One way of respectfully the preferred way of communicating assisting is by building relationships important aspects of life for many with organizations in the community Selma D. Yznaga is an associate Latina/o immigrants is found in that have an established interest in this professor of educational the narrative therapy framework. population. Aligning ourselves with psychology and leadership studies Externalizing the problem can bring a trusted “cultural informants” is another. at the University of Texas at Brownsville and the founder of normalizing aspect to the difficulties Find someone who is already trusted Texas Counselors for Social Justice. immigrant clients are facing. This mode within the immigrant community Contact her at selma.yznaga@ of discussion also serves to help curb the and ask this person to introduce you utb.edu. negative attitude many Latina/os have to community members. Counselors toward counseling. Externalizing removes should be mindful that the immigrant Manuel Zamarripa is an assistant this “issue” from within the client and to population might be skeptical of professor in the Department an external metaphor that can decrease any agency or organization trying of Counseling and Educational the stigma often associated with seeking to penetrate their community. Their Psychology at Texas A&M Corpus mental health services. experience of being unauthorized often Christi and the president of Texas Finally, groups in a school context can leads to a healthy paranoia when it comes Counselors for Social Justice. directly address issues of acculturation to determining whom to trust. Expect to Contact him at manuel.zamarripa@ and ethnic identity. Immigrant frequent the community for some time tamucc.edu. adolescents are still experiencing the before trust is earned. process of identity formation. However, Within our discipline of counseling, Letters to the editor: when this process is layered with coming Counselors for Social Justice, the [email protected] to a new country, then ethnic identity Association for Multicultural Counseling
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 43 Reader Viewpoint - By Marvin Knittel
Helping clients with limb loss
he Great Depression was nearly need counseling. Even in the United over and the nation was only States, veterans with limb loss return to a Ttwo years from being plunged society that generally does not grasp the into World War II. I was almost 6 years challenges amputees face. The counseling old and vaguely aware of the financial profession must step up to the challenge and emotional strain of the Depression, of helping these individuals. the impending war and the horrific dust My 30 years as a professor of counselor storms that swept across the High Plains education, 30 years in a limited private threatening to bury our farm. practice and 70 years of living with limb On Oct. 3, 1939, I fell from my horse loss gives me a unique perspective on the and in a surreal, detached way saw the needs of amputees and what counselors exposed bone of my left wrist sink deep can do. I suspect some counselors will into the barnyard dirt. An eidetic image promptly think, “I don’t encounter of that trauma has remained undisturbed people with missing limbs.” Perhaps that in my memory for 70 years. I still see the is true for some, and I know that many bone and the family doctor treating the amputees avoid seeking professional wound before the age of penicillin. Three help. The direction taken by an amputee days later, my parents were rushing me ultimately is his or her decision. to the city, where an orthopedic surgeon Nevertheless, counselors are in a position was waiting to amputate my left arm to provide opportunities for group inches below the shoulder. The relentless interaction, individual counseling or invasion of the gas gangrene bacteria gave networks to meet the needs of amputees. the surgeon little choice but to tell my Following are some of the concerns that parents that I might not live through the matter to people with limb loss. surgery. In spite of advances in medicine, Body image figures from the Amputee Coalition An amputee quickly becomes aware of America and research from Johns that other people notice the limb Hopkins University show there are 1.7 loss. Preteens are aware that they look million people in the United States with different but are not inclined to dwell limb loss. Research from the Amputee on it because peer approval is not yet Coalition of America also shows that, on critical. Teenagers, on the other hand, average, 507 people in the United States have discovered the opposite sex and lose a limb every day, and that figure frequently believe the absence of a limb is expected to double by 2050. Of the makes them less attractive. This physical 185,000 amputations each year, 80,000 fixation may continue into young are the result of diabetes. Trauma-related adulthood. accidents account for most of the other In spite of recent research that shows amputations. social reaction to be more accepting The St. Petersburg Times of Florida than in the past, amputees fear rejection published an article earlier this year and consequently might avoid close with the headline “Amputations become relationships. I was fortunate during my the defining injury of the earthquake teen years to excel in athletics and became in Haiti.” Joaz Nancie, who survived a “jock.” That label opened doors to the disaster but lost her leg, was quoted me that otherwise might have remained as saying, “There is no place in Haiti closed. Nevertheless, my personal for people like me. Without my leg, I unspoken label was, “I have one arm.” am a freak. Cripples are rejected here.” For example, even as a preteen, I was Haiti needs education, and amputees reluctant to go swimming because I didn’t
44 | Counseling Today | December 2010 want people to see my bare stump. I Counseling Today). Help your clients that identifying a task as difficult is never cannot even venture to guess the number inventory their positive and negative an excuse to neglect trying. of times children said to their parents, perceptions of self and create specific Going deeper “Look, there’s a guy with one arm.” The strategies for change. Defining oneself as In spite of the increased attention being parent invariably shushed the child. adequate is critical. paid to treating trauma victims, I find I took swimming for credit when I was Consider this carefully. When I finally few references in published literature to a freshman in college. The instructor accepted myself as “a person with one the specific psychological needs of those looked at me, told me to go to the arm” instead of a “one-armed person,” with limb loss. However, comprehensive shallow end of the pool and said he I stopped pretending in my mind that coverage of limb loss is available through would get to me later. When the semester I still had two arms. This happened at publications of the Amputee Coalition ended, he still had not gotten to me, in about the same time that I saw myself spite of my frequent requests. I think he with one arm instead of two arms in my of America. More good information can just didn’t know what do with me. The dreams. be found in Rehabilitation Psychology, same was true when it came to golf. All of Explore this with your clients who have Psychological Aspects of Disability and the coaches gave up because they didn’t a missing limb. In other words, help them inMotion (a publication of the coalition). know what to tell me. accept the fact of having a missing limb In addition, Ellen Winchell’s 1995 book So what can you do as a counselor? and then examine the emotional baggage Coping With Limb Loss takes an extensive The first thing, of course, is to apply they have been pulling around. Their look at the medical and psychological what you know from Counseling 101 definition of self might be contaminated aspects of limb loss. — accept unconditionally. As I hinted by their emotional convictions. Not surprisingly, people who lose a earlier, an amputee does not immediately limb go through a period of adjustment. Risk incorporate and accept the part-whole Outwardly, a host of challenges are I don’t believe the most important image, so it is important as a counselor imposed by an environment generally four-letter word is either love or hate. that you do. It takes time to accept this designed for those with four limbs. Then I believe it is risk. Many amputees modified body image. there is the private effort to perceive immediately deal with issues surrounding A counselor can also help the amputee oneself as part-whole. This psychological relationships, success and failure, and link with support groups. Within the struggle may also result in a variety of short- and long-range security. There supportive atmosphere of a support adjustments. are also the emotional issues of loss that group, fears and frustrations are more When the brain records the traumatic include grieving, shame, guilt, loneliness, easily expressed. Acquaint the amputee event resulting in the loss of a limb, it anger, sadness, self-pity, hopelessness, with organizations such as the Amputee simultaneously records the emotional helplessness, despair, depression and Coalition of America. There are also reaction. If the emotional reaction other feelings of being overwhelmed. publications and opportunities to inhibits satisfying adjustments, But confronting these and many other interact with others in cyberspace, counseling can help disengage the concerns requires a willingness to risk for example, at activeliving.com or by distorted emotional memory from the sharing them with someone. e-mailing [email protected]. event. The amputee must become free to The critical question I have had to ask Samples of other organizations online view himself or herself without the filter myself through my years as an amputee are Amputee Empowerment Partners, of the disability. In time, the client may is, “What is the worst that can happen?” the Challenged Athletes Foundation, the come to understand the idea expressed Often, my answer is, “Probably nothing.” Eastern Amputee Golf Association, I-Can by Eleanor Roosevelt: “No one can make I find that if I validate myself, other (Child Amputee Network) and Reach- you feel inferior without your consent.” u people comfortably validate me. Most Association for Children With Upper of us say, “I want my life to be worth Limb Deficiency. something,” so it is important to help Counselors can also help amputees Marvin Knittel is professor your client find the door to self-worth. accept that being different need not emeritus of counseling and school I have long been intrigued by the make a difference in the way they psychology at the University impact the surgeon’s few well-placed view their life. When an amputee can of Nebraska-Kearney and a words had on my parents after my arm honestly challenge his or her inaccurate life member of the American was amputated when I was 6. He said, assumptions about limb loss, it is only Counseling Association living “Treat him like he has two arms. Let a short step to embracing a new image. in Tucson, Ariz. His most him risk failure. Don’t let him use the This does not happen overnight, however. recent book is Counseling and disability as an excuse not to try.” Drama: Psychodrama a Deux Self-concept My parents followed his advice (counselinganddrama.com). Contact An affirmative definition of self religiously, and his advice is applicable him at [email protected]. positively correlates with our ability to to any amputee at any age. Encourage maintain an optimistic frame of mind. clients to define themselves as people, Letters to the editor: (For more on this, see “Counseling not as amputees. Encourage them to [email protected] optimists and pessimists,” an article I risk failure. Anyone who succeeds knows wrote for the October 2009 issue of there is risk involved and understands
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 45 Reader Viewpoint - By Nzingha Dalila with Kaia Goodwin & Geoffrey Yager
My beautiful mind
have come to realize that trauma illness and the impact it would have to the brain can create a myriad of on my life. In rehabilitation, I resented Iphysical, cognitive and emotional having clinicians half my age point out impairments that may dramatically to me the letters I missed on a word transform a person’s life. By sharing a search, teach me once again how to tie glimpse of my own odyssey, I hope that my shoes and become impatient with me I might encourage my fellow counselors when I didn’t want to wait for the staff to to increase their awareness of clients and move me to a bedside commode. families who have endured a near-death Getting well was not a magical journey experience and to better understand how neurological impairments can become of discovering the intricate functioning an ongoing process of redefining and of my brain. I felt imprisoned and reclaiming a quality life. betrayed, both by my body and by the medical staff. Even my family was Nzingha’s story seemingly conspiring against me to make After I had undergone several hours of me believe I was psychotic or moronic. neurological tests because of unbearable After I came very close to trying to knock headaches and vomiting, a doctor told me I had blood clots in my brain and a nurse’s aide unconscious with my took me to intensive care. Some days bedside commode, I started wondering whether everyone might be right. Nzingha Dalila passed by after that. I vaguely recall family members, nurses and doctors After almost two decades of providing coming in, and I remember crying about empathy, advocacy, encouragement my head hurting. Then, one morning, I and care, I, the accomplished clinical woke up and couldn’t feel my left hand therapist, was identified as “difficult” in when I tried to rub sleep out of my eye. my patient chart. That’s when I was told I had suffered One day, I realized I felt powerless a venous sinus thrombosis: a stroke in and hopeless about my life and future. the veins of my brain. Following several I looked at my mother, who had so weeks in the neurological ICU, I was patiently watched over me every day, moved to a rehabilitation center. and said, “Mom, I’m disabled, and I In ICU, I remember feeling very don’t want to accept it.” She looked away upbeat. While the rehabilitation from her soap opera and calmly replied, admission nurse was attaching electrodes to my body to monitor my “You’ve been stubborn all of your life.” I vital symptoms, I happily asked if the had to smile because she was right. My rehabilitation facility was equipped stubbornness was a part of my strength. with a treadmill so I could get back to But it had become a part of me that I jogging. I realize now, however, that I also needed to understand and overcome was in denial about the severity of my so I could get better.
46 | Counseling Today | December 2010 I began to take a closer look at my Throughout the course of her illness, medicines around. If you can smile in the situation. I was still grateful to wake she maintained her strong spirit and face of adversity, you can do anything. up alive every morning. I was starting fierce joy. Each morning she awoke, Nzingha back at home to marvel at how my brain was healing she was grateful for another day of life. I now feel I am living a very because I was learning to improve Although she had rough moments of complicated life that is difficult for my spatial perception and motor denial and paranoia, there was never a others to fully understand. Both of my coordination. I was learning how to time in the hospital when she thought brothers died because of blood clots and read all the way across a page without she would not be well again. The next my mother, who died before I finished forgetting that I’d already completed the day she awoke was the next chance for this article, was diagnosed with blood same chapter in a book four times. her to inch closer toward wellness. Seven clots shortly before her death. People who In addition to being stubborn, I have weeks went by between my mother’s survive one stroke have a higher risk of always possessed a curious mind and stroke and her remarkable recovery. suffering another stroke. So I am quite was fascinated by the journey my brain Although the incident was indeed and I were on. It occurred to me that conscious that each day might be my horrible, I will always remember her last — or, if I survive another stroke, I this part of my journey might include staunch tenacity and admire the strength learning acceptance. For the first time in could become severely and permanently and optimism she showed in the face of impaired. my life, I had to accept that I couldn’t adversity. achieve things by sheer will. I changed Medically, a traumatic brain injury I believe that compassion and my attitude, became a cooperative patient denotes significant physical injury to the understanding are critical when dealing and got busy working at rehab with as brain. This injury disrupts and distorts with illnesses and/or trauma. We need much passion and gusto for my life as cognitive and emotional functioning to truly listen to the person going ever before. for some time, even after the physical through the event, always respect what impairments have disappeared. What’s Kaia’s story the person has to say and honor the more is that living with an ongoing, Initially, my brain couldn’t comprehend person’s courage in opening up to us at life-threatening disorder is a traumatic that my mother was in a life-threatening all. These individuals need support and experience that continues to affect state. I waited on the cusp between anger friendship, not someone who makes and change my life profoundly. The and tears, wondering if my mother would them doubt their capabilities. And always experience could take years to recover still be my mother. When I first saw her, try to laugh. Laughter is one of the best from. she squinted at me as though trying to see an image clearly from far away or recall where she had seen me before. Then, all The Grief r Recovery® at once, she began murmuring “Hello” over and over. I could tell she was excited Certification Training Program to see me. It seemed as though she had more she wanted to say, but after each “Hello,” any succeeding thoughts were DECEMBER lost to a continued amnesia. After a few 10–13 Elizabeth,NJ minutes, she was able to recall my name. We had a short conversation, but the 2011 talking made her head hurt even more. JANUARY The first week was the worst. Every day 21о24 SanDiego,CA brought with it the same painful déjà vu. 28–31 Detroit,MI Sometimes she would cry, but once the 28–31 ShermanOaks,CA hemorrhaging stopped and the morphine FEBRUARY drip finally made her more comfortable, 18о21 Dallas,TX her old wisecracking personality returned. 25–28 Atlanta,GA Realizing that the worst was over, we all MARCH found some strange sense of acceptance 11о14 Arlington,VA regarding my mother’s condition. 18–21 Cleveland,OH Despite what my mother remembers, 18Ͳ21 DesMoines,IA the truth is she was frightened, 25Ͳ28 ShermanOaks,CA particularly after realizing she would be 4ͲDayTrainingx30CEUHoursxMaximum15Participants unable to use her left side, at least for a few days. When the doctors explained the For more information or to register situation, she seemed more assured, but Call 800-334-7606 or visit The Grief Recovery Institute every few hours, a lapse would overtake her. She would forget conversations and WWW.GRIEF.NET repeat phrases or thoughts multiple times.
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 47 As a counselor, I was amazed that my truly understanding the recovering life unpredictable nature of stroke and a recovery was measured only in terms of a beautiful mind requires a grasp of sense of life’s complexity that the rest of of my physical condition. I appreciated “neurological counseling.” us don’t experience. As a friend who also the one support group meeting I happens to be her academic adviser and Geoffrey’s (the academic attended while in rehab. It gave me a a professional counselor, I am in awe of adviser’s) story brief opportunity to sit among others the healing powers of excellent medical From the time Nzingha began taking like myself and talk about the shock of treatment, strong family support, solid graduate courses in the Counseling facing death and waking up to find your faith and personal effort. Nzingha is Program at the University of Cincinnati, body and your future radically changed behavioral proof of such healing. Today, she demonstrated a remarkable interest in what felt like the blink of an eye. Nzingha is attacking the completion of in the human brain. As a counselor When I was discharged, I left with a list her doctoral course work and generating educator for more than 30 years, I can of medications, referrals for an at-home what looks to be an exciting piece of readily state that such an interest is very nurse and physical and occupational dissertation research. atypical of counseling students. Initially, therapists, and an appointment with a The most important lesson from the brain was a potential area for Nzingha’s story for counselors and neurologist. But no one talked to me Nzingha’s dissertation research. counselor educators is that we really need about what it felt like to be afraid that Given this ongoing interest, it is truly to be available to provide support for my brain might explode at any second. ironic that Nzingha suffered a stroke and those who have experienced a stroke. We No one discussed with me that the worst experienced the variety of difficulties (and our clients) must be able to deal thing about your brain gradually healing related to recovering from that stroke. As with the unexpected. A positive, hopeful is that you can’t be sure you can ever I wrestled to make sense of the fact that perspective on whatever unpredicted really trust yourself again or that despite a stroke might even be life threatening events may occur to our clients and all you are going through, you must find to Nzingha, I had to remind myself ourselves will serve us well in the work a way back to a full life. In short, no one repeatedly that this wasn’t just a bad we do. ever referred me to a counselor. dream. Can we convince a client that a crisis I wish I would have been referred Then, I believe only three days after situation is “going to be fine”? No, we to a counselor who understood the the incident, I was sitting in my office don’t know that it will be, and it’s never complexities of someone recovering from and received a telephone call. It was our job to convince a client of anything. a trauma. I wish someone had counseled from Nzingha! She had phoned to let But what we can do is listen carefully me about the challenges of piecing back me know that she was in the hospital to clients and make our best efforts to together my emotional, cognitive and and wasn’t sure when she’d be back understand and to communicate our physical abilities. That might be hard to on campus to resume her studies. My understanding back to clients. Through find though. I have been in the mental suspicion is that she has no present such a connection, clients will no longer health field for almost 20 years, and recollection of this call, but I still feel feel as alone in their personal struggles, I had never encountered this kind of honored that she thought to update me, even if their situations have not yet counseling experience before. If I had her academic adviser, on her progress, changed. u not experienced this illness, I doubt I even in the earliest stages of recovery. could have imagined the complexity of Visiting Nzingha in rehabilitation a case like mine. I didn’t even realize I was totally reassuring. She looked great. needed counseling until months after my She was moving around slowly but physical recovery. And honestly, I was effectively. Her left side wasn’t quite so scared and ashamed of the complex “cooperative,” but she was successfully thoughts and feelings I was having that I negotiating to accomplish whatever she could not bring myself to seek help. needed. Nzingha related a number of So this article is a plea to the funny stories related to her stay in both counseling community to seriously the hospital and the rehab center. It was Nzingha Dalila is a doctoral consider the therapeutic needs of others completely clear that she was well on candidate at the University of like me. As a therapist who treats her way to recovery. In fact, it was only Cincinnati, a licensed professional co-occurring disorders, I know how a week or so later that she was released counselor supervisor and a difficult it is to process multiple issues from the hospital to continue recovery at licensed chemical dependency simultaneously with a client. To provide home. counselor-III. Contact her at counseling for a co-occurring diagnosis Now I need to address what I did not [email protected]. of mental illness and addiction, I must initially recognize as Nzingha began possess a thorough grasp of psychiatric to recover each aspect of her life. I Letters to the editor: disorders as well as the complex mood didn’t yet understand the courage she [email protected] and thought disorders of the addicted was demonstrating to engage her life brain. So trust me, both as a patient and in the face of the unavoidable worries as a clinician, when I say that counseling she has described in this article. She a survivor of traumatic brain injury and faces fears tied to family history, the
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 49 Special Series:DSM-5 - By K. Dayle Jones
Counselor involvement in DSM-5 field trials
hould counselors be involved n Introducing new eating disorder of the field trials for solo practitioners and in the DSM-5 field trials? categories, including binge eating as routine clinical practices, counselors can SConsidering that licensed separate from bulimia help answer the following questions: professional counselors regularly utilize n Collapsing substance dependence and n Are the proposed diagnostic criteria the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual substance disorders into substance use and dimensional assessments easy for of Mental Disorders (DSM), the logical disorder clinicians to understand and use? answer is “yes.” n Do clinicians find that the proposed More than a decade after the American n Adding the new “temper dysregulation diagnostic criteria accurately reflect Psychiatric Association (APA) began disorder with dysphoria,” which is or capture their clients’ symptom developing the fifth edition of theDSM , expected to dramatically reduce the presentations? the field trial stage has begun. Field trials number of children diagnosed with will help evaluate the practical use of the bipolar disorder n Are the proposed diagnostic criteria proposed DSM-5 diagnostic criteria in n Introducing new scales for assessing and dimensional assessments useful/ real-world clinical settings. Specifically, suicide risk in adults and adolescents helpful to clinicians’ treatment the field trials will evaluate the clinical Also to be tested are the so-called planning? utility and feasibility of draft diagnostic dimensional assessments, which may be For more information about criteria as well as the reliability of the the most drastic proposed change in the volunteering to participate in the new dimensional and cross-cutting DSM-5. Dimensional assessments are DSM-5 field trials, visitpsych.org/ assessments. five-point rating scales designed to help dsm5-rcp-fieldtrials. APA will randomly APA is conducting two versions of field clinicians evaluate the severity of a client’s select 2,500 volunteer clinicians who, trials. The first version is taking place symptoms. APA is proposing two types in order to participate in the study, in academic and large clinical settings, of dimensional assessments. One is a will be required to complete a DSM-5 including such well-known institutions set of cross-cutting items that would be web-based training seminar, complete as Stanford University, Columbia used with almost any client, regardless evaluation questionnaires and follow University/New York State Psychiatric of the specific disorder. The second type defined procedures for assessing Institute and the Mayo Clinic. The includes specific severity measures that and diagnosing clients. Counselor second version will focus on clinicians would be used with specific disorders. participation is vital so our voices can from solo practices and smaller routine Both types would be used initially to be heard in the DSM-5 development clinical practice settings who volunteer to establish a baseline and later to monitor process. u participate in the field trial. APA plans to client progress in treatment. randomly select a total of 2,500 clinicians As professional counselors, what is from the volunteer sample. our role and responsibility in the DSM- K. Dayle Jones is a licensed mental Although the field trials mainly 5 field trials? With more than 115,000 health counselor and associate involve psychiatrists, other mental health licensed professional counselors and professor and coordinator of the professionals will also be included. APA more than 53,000 licensed marriage and Mental Health Counseling Program chose to include clinicians from related family therapists in the United States, we at the University of Central mental health professions so the field represent a large contingent vested in the Florida. She served as a member trials would reflect the heterogeneity of DSM-5 development process. Counselors of the American Counseling professionals who use the DSM. work in a variety of settings such as Association’s DSM Task Force that The DSM-5 field trials are the final behavioral health care centers, substance provided feedback to the American opportunity to evaluate proposed new abuse treatment agencies, psychiatric Psychiatric Association on diagnostic criteria that have a great hospitals, private practices and schools, proposed revisions to the DSM-5. potential to change clinical practice. and are trained to assess, diagnose and Contact her at [email protected]. Among the new criteria: provide treatment for diverse clinical n Collapsing four separate autism-related populations. As such, counselors can Letters to the editor: disorders from the DSM-IV-TR into provide important feedback to APA about [email protected] a single disorder: autism spectrum the clinical utility and feasibility of the disorder proposed DSM-5 modifications. As part
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 51 Opinion - By Frank J. Lane Wouldn’t it be nice?
espite its title, this article isn’t ACA’s 19 divisions reflect the diversity counselors from other specializations. about the Beach Boys song. It’s within the larger counseling profession. Fundamentally, we are all still counselors! Dabout a statement Carrie Wilde Our diversity can be challenging because Some may view the differences made to me at the American Counseling each professional organization represents in philosophy within rehabilitation Association Institute for Leadership rehabilitation counselors who practice counseling as a weakness. On the contrary, Training in Washington, D.C., in July. in different settings. These settings often it is a major source of our strength. Carrie, president-elect of the American have slight variations in their philosophies Rehabilitation counselors have a rich Rehabilitation Counseling Association and of rehabilitation, which can affect their history of working collaboratively “across ARCA’s delegate to the 20/20: A Vision belief in the importance of counseling as a the aisle,” regardless of differences in for the Future of Counseling initiative, was primary professional identity. opinion, to accomplish the goals necessary relating her experience and observations These differences in philosophy and to advance our counseling specialization. of the 20/20 process to me, including professional identity have, at times, been For example, NRCA and ARCA worked outcomes to date and possible future slightly exaggerated by some rehabilitation collaboratively to establish CRCC in directions. Her comments got me thinking counselors and used to challenge the belief 1974 to begin certifying rehabilitation about the relationship between general that counseling is the foundation of the counselors. Considering the differences in counseling and rehabilitation counseling specialization. They ask the question, are philosophy between the two organizations, and what needs to occur for the counseling we counselors who specialize in working I am humbled by the accomplishments profession to move forward — and with people with disabilities, or are we of the leaders at that time. Historically, rehabilitation counseling along with it. rehabilitation professionals who practice it is not the differences in opinion that The purpose of this article is to share counseling as part of a larger skill set? This make us strong. Rather, it is our belief in some of my discussion with Carrie and larger skill set that some of my colleagues inclusion and respect for others’ opinions speak to rehabilitation counselors while speak of is our training in medical aspects that is the foundation of our strength. also educating other counselors who of disability, employment of people with Although rehabilitation counseling are less familiar with the specialization. disabilities and work assessment of people has a rich history of collaborating I conclude with a call for action that I with disabilities, to name a few. ARCA successfully within the specialization, believe will facilitate the full inclusion strongly believes that although the formal our success in gaining recognition within of rehabilitation counseling and other training of rehabilitation counselors the larger counseling profession has disciplines into discussions that affect the includes course work in areas unique to waxed and waned over the years. When counseling profession. the discipline, it does not change the fact rehabilitation counselors read articles Rehabilitation counseling can be that we are fundamentally counselors. (CACREP Perspective, May 2010) tricky to explain to someone who isn’t A former mentor of mine at the in Counseling Today claiming there is familiar with the breadth of the discipline. University of Florida, Horace Sawyer, but one accrediting body, the Council Although ARCA is a medium-size division once said that rehabilitation counselors are for Accreditation of Counseling and of ACA, with roughly 700 members, the trained primarily as professional counselors Related Educational Programs, and one specialization of rehabilitation counseling but also as technicians in the other certification body, the National Board for is considerably larger. The Commission areas of training. His comment seems Certified Counselors, they often react by on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification appropriate to this discussion because, stating, “We were here first!” (CRCC) currently certifies roughly 16,500 although there is always an exception, Rehabilitation counselors correctly point rehabilitation counselors. In addition, the majority of rehabilitation counselors to passage of the Soldier’s Rehabilitation other professional associations besides are not trained as nurses, human Act in 1918 as the “official” beginning of ARCA, including the International resource professionals, business people or rehabilitation counseling. The Council Association of Rehabilitation Professionals psychologists. Rehabilitation counselors on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) (IARP) and the National Rehabilitation draw on knowledge from these professions began accrediting rehabilitation counselor Counseling Association (NRCA), to assist individuals with disabilities in education programs in 1974, the same represent the professional interests of accomplishing their life goals. But utilizing year that CRCC began issuing the rehabilitation counselors. Although the the knowledge of other professions doesn’t Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) number of professional associations make us anything more (or less) than credential. Although these facts provide representing the interests of rehabilitation professional counselors. Rehabilitation an objective starting point to claim, counselors might seem curious to counselors might work as administrators, “We’ve been around longer,” rehabilitation some, this reflects the diversity of the case managers, work evaluators or counselors cannot allow these statements specialization, much the same way that therapists in private practice, but so do to become counterproductive. The
52 | Counseling Today | December 2010 moment we begin making statements licensed to practice counseling within their programs excludes licensed counselors about “us” versus “them,” we lose our respective states. who are graduates of CORE-accredited strength as collaborators and create an As the president of ARCA, I made programs. Considering the proportion in-group versus out-group dichotomy a commitment to collaborate this year of CRCs who are licensed to practice that naturally exaggerates the differences with all rehabilitation professional counseling, I believe this decision and between rehabilitation counseling and organizations, no matter their philosophy. others like it represent a growing crisis for general counseling. Of all the counseling The leadership of the National rehabilitation counselors. specializations, we should be keenly aware Rehabilitation Association, a historically ACA’s public policy office informed me of the potential for forming negative conservative group, reported to me in that a group of professional counselors attitudes and stereotypes in such an May that they are receiving clear direction appointed by the VA’s office of human environment. from their constituency by way of their resources recommended the qualifications In 1998, the ACA Governing Council regional boards that counselor licensure for the positions. It appears we need to passed a “parity resolution” stating that is becoming increasingly more important target our educational efforts on practicing CORE and CACREP accreditation to their practice and must be addressed counselors so that everyone is aware of the standards are equivalent for the purposes by the association. As a result, ARCA is counseling specializations recognized in of licensure. This recognition within ACA working collaboratively with the National professional counselor licensure laws. was important so that leadership within Rehabilitation Association and NRCA Before the decision by the VA, the CRCC, CORE and ARCA could advocate to develop a white paper on counselor Institute of Medicine (IOM) made a for graduates from CORE-accredited licensure. The belief, therefore, that recommendation to allow veterans to programs and the certification exam for rehabilitation counselors do not become self-refer to LPCs and get reimbursed rehabilitation counselors to be included licensed and practice independently is a by TRICARE, provided the counselor in state licensing laws for professional and position that is waning. graduated from a mental health counseling mental health counselors. After many years The recent decision by the Department program accredited by CACREP. of success, many rehabilitation counselors of Veterans Affairs (VA) to recognize and Although this seems like another victory now enjoy the ability to practice as include LPCs in the list of recognized for the counseling profession, we must be Licensed Professional Counselors behavioral mental health practitioners was careful not to allow an elite tier of licensed (LPCs) in their respective states. An a victory for the counseling profession. counseling professionals to develop, lest we unofficial report by CRCC suggests that But the decision to require counselors fracture the profession in other ways. The approximately 23 percent of CRCs are to be graduates of CACREP-accredited exclusion of rehabilitation counseling by
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 53 the VA and IOM limits American veterans’ of accrediting graduate programs in for the counseling profession to move access to care, which is ironic considering counseling? Imagine the outcome if the forward, we must focus on our collective that the historical roots of rehabilitation combined strength of both organizations strengths and do what we do best — counseling began with veterans almost 100 was spent discussing how to ensure collaborate. years ago. and improve the quality of counseling For that reason, I ask you to join me in CORE and CACREP accreditation programs in the United States. What if a call for action. When you come to the standards are regarded as equivalent they addressed the concerns and future of when it comes to licensure, so it was no peer review? What if they focused on the ACA Conference in March: surprise that the two accrediting bodies transfer of knowledge to other countries n Ask CACREP and CORE leadership to entered into a discussion about the that want to develop accreditation write jointly in Counseling Today about possibility of merging approximately five standards and counseling programs? accreditation matters that affect the years ago. At that time, the leadership of CACREP had the foresight to begin an counseling profession. both organizations believed that the two international registry of programs. CORE accrediting bodies were similar enough has more recently become involved, along n Ask NBCC and CRCC leaders to in philosophy and practice to allow them with ARCA and other organizations, write jointly in Counseling Today about to work with (and learn from) each other in the development of standards for certification matters that affect the to build a stronger, singular accreditation rehabilitation programs in other countries. counseling profession. body for the counseling profession. A task As the two organizations move forward n Ask the representatives involved in force composed of five representatives and consult with other countries about the 20/20 process to move beyond from each organization was formed, and how to develop standards for accreditation they spent two years working on the and certification, let’s not forget the the unified definition of counseling feasibility of the two groups merging. importance of working collaboratively and begin building on the similarities In the end, the two organizations didn’t to develop requirements for counselor among the counseling specializations, merge, but they remained open to licensure within the United States that particularly with regard to counselor continuing the discussion in the future. recognizes all accrediting and certification licensure within the United States. When articles appear in Counseling bodies. We have more in common with Today stating there is one accreditation Extending this discussion to our fellow counselors than we have body, it gives the impression to some certification, wouldn’t it be nice if differences, and the differences between that the two organizations have stopped NBCC and CRCC worked together to counseling specializations are not as collaborating. CORE and CACREP address matters related to professional probably just went back to conducting credentialing? Where is the research great as they seem or as great as the business as they did before the merger that reports the predictive validity of the IOM or VA has portrayed them to be discussion. Perhaps we shouldn’t expect certification exams? What is the future in recent decisions that affect access to these organizations to step outside their of certification, and what should the counseling services by veterans. daily business activities and establish larger relationship be between certification and I said the title of this article had nothing goals for the counseling profession. It is, licensure? Where is the outcome data that to do with the Beach Boys song, but however, time for professional counselors substantiate the need for these exams? while committing my thoughts to paper, to work collaboratively and consider what’s As consumers of these exams, educators I started wondering if perhaps it does. in the best interest of the profession. In my have a responsibility — to their students opinion, the counseling profession greatly and to the profession — to ensure that Considering the emphasis we place in the benefits from the two accrediting bodies the predictive validity of these exams is counseling profession on the importance working collaboratively, whether merged sufficient and directly related to their of diversity and inclusion, “Wouldn’t it be or not. practice before advocating for their nice to live together in the kind of world Returning to my discussion with Carrie inclusion in counselor licensure laws. where we all worked together as if we Wilde, it became clear during our talk that There is nothing to be gained by belonged?” u the next step for professional counselors exaggerating the differences between is to continue building on the work the profession of counseling and any Frank J. Lane is president of ARCA, that went into the 20/20 discussion and counseling specialization, except to shred head of rehabilitation counseling further unify the profession. The thought the very strength of what we are and and assistant professor at the behind this article began with a singular fragment the profession. As CACREP’s Illinois Institute of Technology, and suggestion by Carrie: Wouldn’t it be nice Carol Bobby stated in the article “Making a member of the CORE Board of if CACREP and CORE worked together definitive progress” in the June 2010 issue Directors. Contact him at lane@ and wrote a regular column in Counseling of Counseling Today, “If we are seen as a iit.edu. Today about accreditation? Instead of fractionalized group of professionals that individuals writing about the organization compete against each other, we will be they represent, what if representatives from treated as such.” If those of us who believe Letters to the editor: CACREP and CORE worked together the purpose behind the 20/20 process of [email protected] to write about what’s in the best interest speaking with a unified voice is important
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 55 Photo courtesy Johnson Photo of Matthew
New elementary school named for Pat Henderson
n Oct. 6, the Northside school. Because of its proven effectiveness Independent School District within NISD, the Texas Education Agency O(NISD) in San Antonio ultimately adopted the Comprehensive dedicated the Dr. Pat Henderson Guidance Program, and the model now Elementary School, honoring a longtime serves as the basis for national counseling American Counseling Association and guidelines. American School Counselor Association “Pat Henderson is a visionary and an member who is recognized as a trailblazer innovator,” says Gysbers, a past president Pat Henderson is the namesake in the field of guidance and counseling. of ACA and curators’ professor and of a new school (shown above) Henderson came to San Antonio from interim chair of the Department of that serves approximately 550 California in 1982 to take the reins as Educational, School and Counseling students. NISD’s director of guidance and served Psychology at the University of in that capacity for nearly 20 years, Missouri-Columbia. “Early on, she retiring in 2001. During that time, she saw the importance of changing the helped the counseling department grow established way of organizing and from approximately 60 counselors to implementing guidance and counseling more than 200 counselors and designed in the schools. She introduced the the Comprehensive Guidance Program concept of a comprehensive program model that was taught to all NISD school in the Northside Independent School counselors. Under the model, counselors District in the early 1980s. Working began actively reaching out to students closely with administrators, faculty and rather than sitting back and waiting parents, she successfully directed the full for students to come to the guidance implementation of the program concept office or waiting for the next crisis to in all of the schools of the district to the occur. In 1987, the U.S. Department direct benefit of all students and their of Education recognized the NISD parents. It is a privilege and an honor for Guidance Department as one of the top me to work with Pat because, as a result, 10 elementary guidance and counseling I continue to see firsthand her remarkable programs in the nation. and substantial contributions to school Henderson developed the guidance and counseling across the Comprehensive Guidance Program in country.” the mid-1970s with Norman Gysbers. Henderson says she was “overwhelmed The program consists of four main and humbled by receiving the highest components: guidance, responsive honor that the school district bestows. services, individual planning and system I feel like I’m having my jersey retired.” support. The components are designed Even so, Henderson doesn’t consider to deliver a full continuum of services to having a school named after her to be a students, whether they need career advice strictly personal honor. “It also honors the or assistance managing a problem that work of professional school counselors and is interfering with their performance at their supportive administrators,” she says.
56 | Counseling Today | December 2010 At a ceremony dedicating the new elementary school, a video tribute to Henderson was shown. In the video, Henderson revealed that she first contemplated becoming a guidance counselor as a teenager, when her parents were divorcing and she didn’t feel as though she had anyone to talk to about what she was going through. She believed guidance counselors could and should be filling a more substantial role in the lives and futures of students. Henderson has been a member of ACA “The ACA Encyclopedia of and ASCA since 1966 and has also been Counseling is like no other reference active in the National Career Development in professional counseling. Whether Association and the Association for preparing for a credentialing Counselor Education and Supervision. examination or an unfamiliar client Henderson and Gysbers are currently issue, this book will serve as a review of working on a fifth edition of their salient information or a quick resource popular book Developing & Managing for other in-depth treatments of the Your School Guidance and Counseling topic.” Program, which is published by ACA. —Thomas J. Sweeney, PhD Henderson is also the author of The New Professor Emeritus, Ohio University Handbook of Administrative Supervision in Counseling, an ACES-sponsored book, as well as numerous other books and articles. “This is a long awaited tour de force that is likely to become a In addition to presenting workshops classic.” and seminars nationwide, Henderson —Colleen R. Logan, PhD continues to play a pivotal role in the ACA President, 2008–2009 school counseling field as a consultant to school districts across the United States. This premiere counseling reference book is ideal for students, Henderson has been the recipient of educators, supervisors, researchers, and practitioners seeking numerous honors, including lifetime to quickly update or refresh their knowledge of the most achievement awards from ASCA, ACES important topics in counseling. More than 400 entries span and the Texas Counseling Association. the 2009 CACREP core areas used in counselor preparation, “Patricia Henderson’s lifelong continuing education, and accreditation of counseling commitment to improving guidance degree programs, making this a perfect text for introductory and counseling services for children is astounding,” said ACA Treasurer counseling classes or for use as a study guide when preparing Elias Zambrano, a longtime friend and for the National Counselor Exam. This encyclopedia makes colleague who succeeded Henderson counseling come alive through its user-friendly writing style; as NISD’s director of guidance and instructive examples that connect readers to practice, teaching, counseling. “Through her tireless work, supervision, and research; and its helpful cross-referencing children in our local school district, in of entries, boldfaced important terminology, and suggested Texas and across the United States have ÀiÃÕÀViÃÊvÀÊvÕÀÌ iÀÊÃÌÕ`Þ°ÊÓääÊUÊÈÇÓÊ«>}ià felt the impact [of the guidance program model she developed] personally.” In "À`iÀÊÇÓnÇ - ÊÇn£xxÈÓäÓnn addition to the Comprehensive Guidance List Price: $99.95 ACA Member Price: $74.95 Program model’s influence nationally, Zambrano noted that the model is now Please include $8.75 for shipping of the first book receiving global interest. and $1.00 for each additional book. Henderson Elementary School, a bilingual school, serves approximately American Counseling Association 550 students in grades pre-K through 800-422-2648 x222 5. It is one of 68 elementary schools in NISD, which is the fourth-largest school counseling.org district in Texas, serving more than 94,000 students. u
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 57 Your professional development for 2011 starts here.
Register by February 15, 2011. Receive your registration materials in advance! ACA 2011 Conference & Exposition (Co-sponsored by the Louisiana Counseling Association) March 23-27, 2011 • New Orleans, LA
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58 | Counseling Today | December 2010 12 Reasons Why You Should Get Jazzed and Register Now 1) 500+ peer-reviewed Education Sessions: More than 140 Advanced level! 2) Peer-reviewed Pre-conference Learning Institutes: 29 Advanced level; Get Inspired 10 Introductory–only 45% accepted 3) CE Credit: Earn 20 at no additional fee (except $15 processing fee); earn up to 18 more with Pre-conference LIs! 4) Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Training: Earn 6.5 more CEs 5) Free private consultations on your career, Private Practice 6) Special events: Opening Night Celebration, International Forum, receptions 7) ACA Division and Branch events: Meals, socials, meetings, special programs 8) Poster Sessions: More than 100 displaying new research, important projects 9) Exposition: View the very latest technologies, books, information, services 10) ACA Bookstore: Meet the authors, discuss your book ideas, browse new titles Judith S. Beck 11) Special tours of New Orleans President, Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research 12) First Timers Orientation and Mentoring Luncheon Plus…..
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 59 Advance Onsite Get Immersed LI Rates By Feb. 15, 2011 After Feb. 15, 2011 Day Evening Day Evening Pre-conference Learning ACA/LCA Members Institutes (LI) Professional/Regular $160 $115 $200 $155
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011 n Linking Play and Talk Therapy: Coun- NOTE: A separate registration Advanced Level seling Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents Through Expressive Arts in Activity fee applies for Learning n The Many Facets of Grief Therapy Institutes. n What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You n Psychological First Aid: Responding to Stronger...or Does it? Tools for Foster- Terrorism, Trauma, and Tragedies ing Real Resilience in Children, Adults n and Ourselves Childhood Obesity: Counseling Inter- ventions for Children and Families n Balancing Disaster Mental Health: Resilient Individuals, Resilient Introductory Level Communities, Resilient Counselors n Implementing Solution-Focused Brief n The Essence of Intimacy: Experiencing Counseling With Youth the Fundamentals of Sex Counseling n Military Systems and Mental Health: Through Sexual Attitude Restructuring Understanding the Culture, Under- (SAR) standing Dynamics n Advanced Play Therapy: Improve Skills n The Next Ten Minutes: Seriously Playful in Theme Analysis, Work With Parents, Techniques for Bringing Mindfulness Aligning Philosophy and Advocating for Into Your Counseling Practice Practice n After the Storm Is Over: Grief, Loss, n Starting, Maintaining and Expanding a and Substance Abuse Issues in Disaster Successful Private Practice: Surviving or Mental Health Work Thriving? n Social Media for the Professional Coun- n Domestic Violence in Military Families selor n DSM-V: A Conduit for the Diagnostic n Addressing Challenging Behaviors in Schema Across the Spectrum of Coun- Individuals With Autism Spectrum Dis- seling Practices orders in Community and School Based n Disaster Mental Health Interventions for Settings Children: Evidence-Based Practices To Promote Recovery and Resiliency n Individual Psychology: Relevant Theoretical Principles and Advanced Techniques for Today’s Counselor
60 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Advance Onsite By Feb. 15, 2011 After Feb. 15, 2011 Visit The Exposition—March 24-26 More than 100 Day Evening Day Evening exhibitors will ACA/LCA Members Professional/Regular $160 $115 $200 $155 showcase the latest
New Professional/Student/Retiree $115 $90 $155 $130 products and services
for counseling Non-Members General Attendees $220 $175 $260 $215 professionals
Non-Member Student $175 $150 $215 $190 Hours: Thursday, March 24 Exposition Grand Opening & Welcome Reception 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Friday, March 25 10:30 am – 6:00 pm Thursday, March 24, 2011 n Evidence Based Methods for PTSD Advanced Level and Depression Saturday, March 26 n Brief Emotion Focused Couples n Play Therapy: A Universal Language for 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Relationship Enhancement: Improving Understanding and Helping Trauma- Attachment Security, Intimacy, Stability, tized Children From Diverse Cultures and Satisfaction And there’s much more n Using Theories and Creative Techniques n An Integrative-Constructivist Approach in Group Counseling happening in the Expo: to Clinical Supervision n Post-disaster Mental Health: Primary/ n Child-Centered Play Therapy and Food * Computer stations Mental Health Integration Disaster Mental Health: Providing * Poster sessions * Private n Therapeutic Interventions for Co-par- Support to Young Children in Crisis consultations on licensure, enting Conflicts: Practical Strategies for n Integrating Sandplay Into Counseling: Working With Shared Custody Families private practice, job searching Techniques for Therapeutic Disclo- * Graduate Student and New n Infusing College and Career Readiness sure, Trauma, and Healing Professional Center Counseling Into Counselor Education: n DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic Training: Rethinking School Counselor Sharpening Your Skills as a Clinical Preparation Mental Health Counselor n How Many Hats Do You Wear? Counselors Working in Family Court as Introductory Level Custody Evaluators, Family Mediators, n Counseling Theory in Practice and Parent Coordinators n Psychopharmacology for the Psycho- n Combating Harmful Media Influences therapist on Girls’ Mental Health: Counselor Advocacy, Prevention, and Treatment n Counseling Challenging Teenagers Approaches n Advanced Reality Therapy: Practical Skills for Dealing With Clients n Advancing Your Suicide Prevention, in Crisis, Feeling Separated or Assessment, and Intervention Skills: “Put Upon” by Society Practical Information for Counselors n Emotional and Cognitive “Bridge- n Motivational Interviewing and Cogni- Building”: Creating Therapeutic Con- tive Behavioral Approaches to Alcohol nections With Military Members and and Other Drug Use in Adolescents Veterans
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 61 Already registered for the Conference? Make your hotel reservations by February 28!
Reserve by February 28, 2011 IMPORTANT: All ACA Conference hotel reservations must be made using the ACA Housing Bureau. All of the ACA conference hotels are within walking distance of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center or a short ride on the complimentary ACA shuttle bus. The deadline for receiving the discounted housing rate is February 28, 2011. To make a reservation Online: counseling.org/conference Click on Travel and Lodging Mail to: ACA 2011 HOUSING BUREAU, 568 Atrium Dr., Vernon Hills, IL 60061-1731 Call: 800-974-9833 (domestic) or 847-996-5876 (international) Fax: 800-521-6017 (domestic) or 847-996-5401 (international)
ACA Headquarters Hotel Hilton New Orleans Two Poydras Street Single/Double: $225.00/$245.00
Courtyard by Marriott New Hotel New Orleans SpringHill Suites by Marriott Orleans/Convention Center Convention Center New Orleans/Convention Center 300 Julia Street 881 Convention Center Boulevard 301 St. Joseph Street Single & Double: $175.00 Single & Double: $168.00 Single & Double: $175.00 This hotel offers complimentary Located across the street from This hotel offers complimentary buffet breakfast and wireless high Convention Center buffet breakfast and wireless high speed internet. speed internet. Located 3 blocks from Convention Residence Inn by Marriott Located 4 blocks from Convention Center Downtown at the Convention Center Center Hampton Inn and Suites New 345 St. Joseph Street Wyndham Riverfront Orleans/Convention Center Hotel Single & Double: $175.00 New Orleans 1201 Convention Center Boulevard This hotel offers complimentary 701 Convention Center Boulevard Single/Double: $159.00/$169.00 buffet breakfast and wireless high Single/Double: $178.00/$188.00 This hotel offers complimentary speed internet. Located 3 blocks from Convention buffet breakfast and wireless high Located 5 blocks from Convention Center speed internet. Center Located across the street from Convention Center
62 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Picture collage
New Orleans City Tour Behind the scenes of Mardi Gras
Garden District Gems TOURS
NEW ORLEANS CITY TOUR STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ DINNER CRUISE Thursday, March 24 • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Friday, March 25, 6-9:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 27, 6-9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 26 • 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Enjoy a harbor cruise along the Mississippi River aboard the The guided tour includes Jackson Square on the edge of the Steamboat Natchez while being entertained by a traditional New French Quarter, Esplanade Avenue where you’ll see Creole Orleans Dixieland band. mansions amongst 100-year-old oak trees. We then travel Price: $98 per person (includes full-course dinner, live entertainment outside the city center to view and understand the areas that and transportation) were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Price: $25.00 per person (includes transportation) BIG EASY VENTURE – FRENCH QUARTER & RIVERBOAT GARDEN DISTRICT GEMS Sunday, March 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, March 24 • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Beginning at the St. Louis Cathedral, guests will learn the real Friday, March 25 • 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm history of the people and places that make up the mysterious Visit the “American” section of town that was built to rival the French Quarter, settled in the early 1700s. Guests will then architectural splendor of the Creoles’ French Quarter. Enjoy a take a two-hour harbor cruise along the Mississippi River walk through New Orleans’ elegant Garden District, known aboard the Steamboat Natchez while enjoying a traditional for its marvelous examples of Greek Revival and Italianate Creole lunch buffet. architecture. Homes of former Kings and Queens of Mardi Gras Price: $88 per person (includes lunch and transportation) Price: $35.00 per person (Guided Garden District Walking Tour) NATIONAL W W i i MUSEUM Saturday, March 26 • 1:00 – 5:00 pm BEHIND THE SCENES OF MARDI GRAS Sunday, March 27 • 1:00 – 5:00 pm Friday, March 25 • 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Saturday, March 26 • 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Dr. Stephen Ambrose, University of New Orleans Boyd Professor of History, founded The National D-Day Travel to Mardi Gras World to take a look at the behind-the- Museum Foundation in New Orleans in 1991. The Museum, scenes magic of Mardi Gras, which will have just ended on which opened on June 6, 2000, is the only museum in the United March 9. Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World is New Orleans’ States that addresses all of the amphibious invasions or “D-days” showcase of carnival, with thousands of sensational sculptured of World War II, paying tribute to the more than one million props and breath-taking giant figures on display year-round. Americans who took part. Price: $65.00 per person (includes private guided tour & Price: $40.00 per person (self-guided tour includes deluxe transportation) admission, 45-minute presentation, and transportation)
To reserve your tour visit counseling org/conference, click on Tours
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 63 Election information
Dear Colleagues: students to do the same. Only through our collective efforts as professional As members of the American counselors can we hope to positively Counseling Association and its divisions, shape the future of our association and we select the leaders who guide our professional organizations. This is a the profession. critical time for the counseling profession. Please consider the following candidates ACA, its divisions and regions need who have volunteered their time and leaders who possess the skills, knowledge energy to run for office in service to the and dedication to guide our association in profession. I encourage you to support fulfilling its charge to represent counselors the candidates who best reflect your and the counseling profession. Your vote professional values and priorities. Your is critically important in selecting these vote is important; please make it count! leaders who collectively will establish the priorities and shape the policies that will Sincerely, move our profession forward both now and in the future. Marcheta P. Evans, Ph.D., I encourage you to maintain your LPC-S, NCC, DCC membership and active participation. President Please encourage your colleagues and American Counseling Association
Online voting using the username and password that The American Counseling Association you receive in the e-mail. If you do has moved its elections online! not have an e-mail address on file with There are several reasons for this ACA, you will receive a postcard with enhancement. Among them: the instructions. n Less environmental impact Only the elections that you are (going green) eligible to vote in will appear. After n Cost effectiveness you have marked your choices and submitted your ballot, you will receive n Convenience an official e-receipt confirming that n Anonymity guaranteed by a third- you have voted. party vendor that is completely autonomous from ACA Questions? Comments? n Superior reliability If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to The election will open Dec. 2 at contact ACA Member Services at 12 a.m. Eastern time. Only those 800.347.6647 (Monday to Friday, 8 members in good standing as of Nov. a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern). Paper ballots 1, 2010, will be eligible to vote. may also be requested by calling You will receive a special e-mail Member Services. from ACA Elections (acaelections@ Remember, the elections do not counseling.org) on the morning of Dec. open until Dec. 2, so the link will not 2 with the link to vote as well as your be available until that time. The link username and password. The password will close at midnight Eastern time on will be a special one-time election Jan. 31, 2011. personal identification number (PIN). Your voice is an important and Voting instructions integral part of ACA, and every vote Log in to the new election system counts!
64 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Note: Other than for spelling, the Association experience Presentations information that follows has not been 2009-2010 President of the Counselors Over 250 professional presentations at edited. It appears as submitted by the for Social Justice (CSJ) 2007-2009 state, regional, national and international candidates. President of the Hawaii Counselors counseling conferences and conventions. Association (HCA) 2006-2008 Western Most professional presentations done at American Counseling Regional Representative for the Hawaii ACA sponsored conferences over the past 31 years. Association Counselors Association 2009-2011 Coeditor for a special issue of the Community service Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 2009-2010 National Coordinator Education, and Development on Social President-Elect of the Multicultural/Social Justice justice Counseling and Advocacy issues Leadership Development Academy 2006-2008 Special coeditor of a special and Giving Back to the Community issue of the Journal of Counseling and Project held at the annual meeting of Development on Multiculturalism. 1994- the American Counseling Association 2008 Coeditor of a monthly professional in Pittsburgh, PA. 2005-2009 National counseling column entitled “Promoting Coordinator of the Giving Back to the Human Dignity and Development Community Projects held at the annual Through Diversity” published in the meetings of the American Counseling ACA’s Counseling Today Association in Charlotte, NC (2009), ACA/Division/Branch Honolulu, HI (2008), Detroit, MI memberships (2007), and Atlanta, GA (2005). 1997- ACES, ALGBITC, AMCD, 2001 Coordinator of the Hawaii School Michael D’Andrea C-AHEAD, ASGW, CSJ, Hawaii Violence Prevention Project Education Counselors Association Qualifications and reasons Ed.D. George Peabody College Awards and honors for seeking office at Vanderbilt University Nashville, April 2007 - The Counseling Vision My qualifications to serve as ACA Tennessee Graduated: May 1982 Human and Innovation Award presented by the President have been nurtured in many Development Counseling M.A. Fairfield Association for Counselor Education ways. This includes the professional University Fairfield, Connecticut 06607 and Supervision (ACES). August 2006 training I received in securing my master’s Graduated: May 1975 Educational - The Presidential Award presented (Fairfield University; Connecticut) Counseling by the Asian American Psychological and doctoral (George Peabody College Association to Michael D’Andrea and for Teachers at Vanderbilt University; Current position the National Institute for Multicultural Nashville, TN) degrees. Also, working Executive Director of the National Competence (NIMC) for the leadership in different work settings for 30+ years Institute for Multicultural Competence and commitment to social justice and as a counselor educator, practitioner, coalition building. April 2004 - The advocate, and researcher, has greatly Professional experience enhanced my understanding of the 2009-present — Faculty member and National O’hana Award presented by the Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ). strengths, interests, and needs of distance learning instructor at Seton Hall March 2003 - Arthur A. Hitchcock professional counselors. After first University (New Jersey), University of Distinguished Professional Service Award joining ACA in 1980, I became a Massachusetts, Boston, and St. Mary’s presented by the American Counseling lifetime member of the Association in University (Texas) 1989-December 2009 Association (ACA). March 2000 - 1994. In my 30+ years as a member of Professor in the Department of Counselor Outstanding Leadership Award presented ACA, I have served in many capacities Education at the University of Hawaii at by the International Association of to fulfill the mission of this association. Manoa. 1982-1989 Vanderbilt University, Marriage and Family Counseling This includes serving on several ACA Department of Human Development (IAMFC). April 1996 - Association Research Committees, being a cochair and Human Resources, Nashville, for Multicultural Counseling and of the Public Policy Committee with the International Association of Marriage Tennessee - Adjunct Associate Professor Development (AMCD) Research Award. and Family Counseling (IAMFC), 1978-1989 Meharry Community Mental April 1992 - Association for Multicultural being a coeditor for a special issue of the Health Center, Nashville, Tennessee, Counseling and Development: Special Journal of Counseling and Development President’s Citation for Research. Mental Health Counselor 1976-1977 on multicultural issues (2007-2008), Director Ocean View Adolescence Group Publications coeditor for a special issue of the Journal Home, Fort Bragg, California, 1970- Over 200 publications including 6 of Humanistic Counseling, Education 1973 Respiratory Therapist/Emergency books, 30+ book chapters, 60+ refereed and Development on social justice Medical Technician Park City Hospital, journal articles and other scholarly issues (2009-2011) and coordinating Bridgeport, Connecticut publications primarily in ACA outlets. several “Giving Back to the Community
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 65 Projects” at ACA annual conferences. I States. Thus, I would convene a series As ACA president, I would work served as President at the ACA Branch of in-person and electronic conferences to build an organizational culture level (Hawaii ACES President from 1990- as well as host a caucus meeting at the that inspires and motivates students 1992; Hawaii Counselors Association 2012 ACA Conference to develop and to continue as ACA members President from 2007-2009), Regional implement strategies to build unity with throughout their careers. This includes Representative (Western Regional these persons and organizations. reinvigorating the ACA Mentoring Representative 2006-2008), and as Program, where experienced ACA President of a national ACA association The United States is becoming members agree to mentor students. In (CSJ President from 2009-2010). All increasingly diverse, and counseling is addition to providing mentoring services of these opportunities have helped becoming more global. It is critical to that support students’ growth and me learn about ACA’s organizational increase the diversity among counselors. development, mentors would agree to policies and procedures in ways that How would you address this issue, and pay for their mentees’ ACA membership effectively prepared me to serve as what steps would you take? for one year, while mentees agree to President of our association. If elected to The following initiatives represent pay for their own membership for the this position, I would work particularly some of the specific ways that I would following year. hard to support the interests of students, address the challenge of diversifying the Second, I would convene two student increase the public’s awareness of ACA, counseling profession. First, I would work leadership conferences during my and implement new initiatives aimed with other ACA leaders, members and presidency. The cost effectiveness of at strengthening ACA’s organizational students to develop a long-term “ACA these conferences will be addressed by infrastructure and increase a diverse Diversity Initiative” during my president- using video conferencing and related membership base. elect year and begin implementing this technology in ways that also ensure the initiative during my presidential year. broadest participation of students in the Candidate questions Second, I would convene a series United States and other countries. As president of ACA, what would be of meetings early in my presidential Third, I am committed to fostering your three top priorities? Why would year with leaders in all ACA divisions a greater level of democracy in ACA these be your priorities, and how would to seek their support in making the by advocating for increased student you implement them? diversification of their associations a involvement in the decision-making As ACA president, I would build on major goal. During these meetings, I processes that affect our association. ACA’s strengths by establishing new would work collaboratively with all ACA This will involve working with other initiatives to address three priorities. This association leaders to develop a realistic individuals to advocate for a new ACA includes working with others to: and consensually agreeable strategic plan association specifically for students. This A) Build a more expansive and diverse to address and measure the effectiveness new association would enable students membership base in ACA. of our collective efforts to diversify our to formally exercise their rights as ACA B) Develop new organizational associations. stakeholders, voice their interests from mechanisms that foster graduate students’ Third, I would establish an the grassroots of our association and empowerment in ACA. international task force to develop and be represented on the ACA Governing C) Institutionalize ongoing national institutionalize a multiyear action plan to Council. and international initiatives to build increase the cultural diversification of the greater unity with counselors in other counseling profession and ACA from a As ACA president, how would you nations and allied organizations in the global perspective. increase the visibility and public United States. Fourth, I will outreach with national awareness of the counseling profession Recognizing that our collective strength organizations whose mission is to and ACA? is grounded in a large and diverse advocate for the healthy development of To increase the visibility and membership base, I would establish a persons in diverse groups who operate public awareness of the counseling vibrant ACA Membership Campaign to from multiple dimensions of identity. profession and ACA, I would first increase ACA’s membership from 43,000 Having ACA build partnerships with convene a special task force that was members to 60,000 members by the end such organizations would be a practical responsible for developing a national of my presidential tenure. and cost-effective way to help to further project aimed at “Promoting Healthy Understanding that our graduate diversify ACA. Human Development and Wellness” in students represent the future of different locations across the country. the profession, I would work to The membership of ACA continues to This national project would involve institutionalize a new student association increase. However, the greatest increase is working with other ACA associations in ACA that guarantees full voting rights among students, many of whom do not to implement time-limited wellness on the Governing Council. continue their membership once they interventions in schools, universities The future well-being of the counseling graduate. How would you address the and communities. These service projects profession requires greater collaboration issue of retaining student members so would increase public awareness of the with counselors in other nations and they continue as professional members counseling profession and ACA with allied professional groups in the United for the duration of their careers? minimal expense to ACA.
66 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Second, I would work with other Awards and honors for our students’ and professional ACA members to develop an alternative ACA Fellow; ACA Arthur Hitchcock members’ needs and aspirations at all “diagnostic” manual to the DSM. Distinguished Professional Service levels. As President, I will draw upon This alternative manual would Award; ACA Extended Research Award; these experiences and insights, and include diagnostic procedures to ACA Research Award; ACA Professional harness the passion and energy of our assess individual, organizational and Development Award; ACA Carl D. members and leaders. I will focus our community health and wellness. It Perkins Government Relations Award; association activities on the principled would also outline recommendations ACES Stripling Excellence in Standards and strategic goals that will move the Award. for increasing healthy human, entire profession to a higher level of practice, advocacy and professionalism. I organizational and community Publications will work collaboratively with members, development through counseling, 16 counseling books (including leaders, and staff to achieve our critically development and related health-based Transforming the School Counseling important mission to help others grow Profession, Professional School interventions. and develop. I have the vision, passion, Counseling Handbook, Assessment for Third, I would implement a major skills, and knowledge to accomplish our Counselors, Group Work in the Schools, social justice advocacy project that professional and Association goals. addresses the epidemic of violence in our Research and Evaluation in Counseling), nation. This project would be designed numerous refereed articles. Candidate questions to increase the public’s awareness of Presentations As president of ACA, what would be the ways that counselors are currently More than 100 presentations in the your three top priorities? Why would addressing this problem in communities past 10 years. these be your priorities, and how would across the country and seek support Qualifications and reasons you implement them? from citizens and organizations to help for seeking office Priority 1. Protect and Expand Practice stop the violence in our nation. I have been an ACA Governing Rights. I am no stranger to legislative Council Representative for the past five battles against opponents who seek to years. I have held office at every level restrict our rights to practice counseling of association experience, including and serve the public. ACA must fight national division (AACE President, hard at the federal and state levels to AACE Treasurer); ACA region (Chair, protect and guarantee all counselors’ ACA - Southern Region); state branch rights to practice. We also need to (Past President of Maryland ACD); and introduce legislation that will expand state branch division (Past President of employment opportunities for counselors, MAME, MACES, and MAMHC). I increase reimbursement/salaries and help have chaired numerous ACA committees us to better advocate for and serve our and task forces, including the ACA clients. Bradley T. Erford Bylaws and Policies Committee, ACA Priority 2. Outstanding Member Task Force on High Stakes Testing, ACA Services. More low-cost CEUs (via Education Interprofessional Committee, ACA Task Internet, conference and workshops), Ph.D. in counselor education Force on Test User Qualifications, and expand employment/career services, (University of Virginia); M.A. (Bucknell ACA’s Public Awareness and Support professional liability insurance, University), B.S. (Grove City College) Committee. I also advised my university’s networking opportunities for students Chi Sigma Iota chapter for more than and professionals, mentoring and more. Certification and licensure 10 years. As President of ACA I will Priority 3. Fiscal Responsibility NCC, LCPC, LPC, LSP, LP work tirelessly to unify our professional Through Innovation. ACA can Current position identity, increase membership services, increase revenue through publications, continuing education, web expansions Professor, Loyola University Maryland advocate for social justice, and strengthen the professional image, visibility, and and conferences, while simultaneously Professional experience employment of counselors. Currently, using strategic, efficient and quality Professor, School Counseling Program, ACA is confronted with a number of technological innovations to realize Loyola University Maryland, Education significant challenges: organizational, further cost savings. For example, Specialties Department (1993-present) financial, and legislative; but my expanding our web capabilities will allow experience as a grassroots member and members electronic access to journals and ACA/Division/Branch in leadership at the national, regional Counseling Today. memberships and state levels has taught me that these I am a member of ACA’s Strategic Plan Memberships in AACE, ACES (life), challenges can be overcome through Implementation Task Force, charged NARACES, SACES, ACA – Southern teamwork and collaborative leadership. with constructing and implementing Region, Maryland ACD, Chi Sigma Serving in these capacities has given a strategic plan to guide ACA’s future Iota (life). me a firsthand look and intuitive feel course and resource allocation, and
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 67 understand how to make ACA even professional liability insurance for more effectively than focusing on any stronger. student members. Now that we have single level — but the effort must be it, student numbers are increasing expertly coordinated, and ACA is in the The United States is becoming dramatically. It is up to us to make sure best position to do so. increasingly diverse, and counseling is their counselor identity is solidified As president, I would implement becoming more global. It is critical to and valuable services available so a concerted media campaign to increase the diversity among counselors. they stay members once they become accomplish this goal. ACA needs to How would you address this issue, and practitioners! develop a marketing campaign to what steps would you take? As students transition to become increase name recognition and visibility. A rich diversity of thought and opinion practitioners, they want time- and When state and national legislators hear strengthens our understanding of the cost-effective professional development “… Counseling Association,” they need human condition and yields insights opportunities and employment/ to get the message that we all stand as into how we can best advocate for the legislative advocacy. We need more one. ACA must reach out and partner diverse clientele we serve. The counseling practitioner-friendly presentations at with other helping organizations. Daily profession is steeped in the traditions conferences. I have also helped ACA in schools and communities, throughout of developmental and intervention create a flexible, menu-driven or tiered ordinary times and unfortunate approaches, multicultural counseling dues program that will allow new tragedies, opportunities to communicate and advocacy counseling. Each of these professional members to ease into the the important work of professional traditions has enriched the training graduated dues payments while picking counselors are created. of counselors and ethical counseling and choosing the services they want. practices. We are making progress in ACA needs to focus on what new attracting more diverse counseling members want: CEUs from conferences practitioners, but can do much more. As and workshops, employment ACA President, I would: opportunities, low-cost professional 1) Use the ACA website, Counseling liability insurance, networking Today and discussions at conferences as opportunities and mentoring. Members communication forums for strategies and rightfully demand a return on their innovations in recruitment of diverse dues (investment). When they get it, prospective students. members become committed to our 2) Develop communication platforms professional mission. and materials for dissemination to Finally, we need to reach out to Jeffrey Freiden prospective diverse students to help them students and young professionals think critically about emerging social through technological innovations they Education issues and how they can truly make a are wired into, including blogs and Doctorate of Education - Counseling, difference as a counselor. social networks. In short, ACA needs The University of Memphis - 2005 3) Create and facilitate mentoring to be the connection point for a new Master of Science, Psychology, The programs to keep diverse counseling generation of counselors. University of Memphis - 1995 Bachelor students and faculty in the field. of Arts, Psychology, The University of 4) Advocate for the recruitment As ACA president, how would you Memphis – 1992 of diverse faculty to serve as models increase the visibility and public Certification and licensure of professional accomplishment in awareness of the counseling profession Licensed Professional Counselor counseling and provide an academic and ACA? with Mental Health Service Provider environment that is both stimulating Public awareness and professional designation.- Tennessee National and inviting to students with diverse identity are enhanced through greater Certified Counselor. School Counselor - backgrounds. visibility of the quality professional Memphis City Schools National Certified 5) Advocate for higher reimbursement/ counseling services we provide to the School Counselor NBPTS - candidate salaries for counselors. public. I view public awareness as Approved Provider by The Tennessee concentric circles proceeding inside out Sex Offender Treatment Board OSHA The membership of ACA continues to from national to state to local issues — approved provider of Critical Incident increase. However, the greatest increase is as politicians say, “All politics are local.” Stress Management and Debriefing Red among students, many of whom do not To be successful in advocating for our Cross First Responder continue their membership once they clients and on behalf of all citizens, graduate. How would you address the professional counselors need to recognize Current position issue of retaining student members so that we all have to be involved at all CEO & therapist - Counseling they continue as professional members levels simultaneously, using grassroots Resources of America - Mental Health for the duration of their careers? and strategic, targeted initiatives. A Counseling for juveniles and adults. As a Governing Council concerted effort on many levels will School Counselor - Cordova Middle representative, I helped secure free strengthen our professional identity far School - Memphis City School District
68 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Adjunct Professor, The University Health Counselor Association Tennessee organization. ASCA needs to be brought of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. Education Association back to 20/20. We need to embrace our Counseling Resources of America: Private belief that we are richer for all of our Awards and honors practice counseling office providing differences. This is what makes us strong. Chi Sigma Iota Kappa Delta Pi group and individual counseling for ACA is a home for all counselors. juveniles and adults School Counselor - Humanitarian Award - Tennessee Cordova Middle School - Memphis City Counselor of the Year - Tennessee Candidate questions School District. Adjunct Professor, The Community service As president of ACA, what would be University of Memphis St. Jude Research Hospital American your three top priorities? Why would Professional experience Red Cross National Alliance for the these be your priorities, and how would 1991 to current - Private Family Mentally Ill Tennessee Alliance for the you implement them? counseling practice: Provide group and Mentally Ill National Conference of [email protected], my personal individual counseling for juveniles and Christians and Jews Board member e-mail. You will see it whenever you adults High School and Middle School Anshi- Sephard synagogue Israel Bonds see my name. I serve the membership. Counselor - Memphis City Schools. There is a great value in ACA dues with Qualifications and reasons a talented staff and multiple benefits. 1996 to current Provider of Sex Offense for seeking office However, as a member, sometimes I have counseling for persons adjudicated in I am qualified to run for ACA president felt lost trying to find the right person to Federal and State court and with clients because I have demonstrated my ability to resolve a membership question. The buck currently incarcerated. 1997 Adjunct build membership and financial growth stops here. Professor - The University of Memphis. as president of Tennessee Counseling Improve Technology: ACA has a great Owned nation wholesale jewelry Association and as Chair of Southern website. We could add Twitter to update company for 15 years before selling the Region. I have no financial interest in last-minute conference changes or tweet company and returning to college at being elected. I have no book to publish. about a pending vote in Washington. We age 36 in 1990. June 1999 to Current My university will not give me tenure (I could archive past conference programs. Counseling Resources of America / am adjunct). My middle school will not A smartphone application to access Children’s Counseling Resource Licensed give me a raise. My counseling office will conference information and member Professional Counselor/MHSP in not pay me a special stipend (I pay all of benefits. Video-link sessions for members Private Practice July 1995 to June 1999 my own expenses to ACA, conferences, who are unable to attend conference. A Southeast Community Mental Health and association dues). Actually, being webpage, outside of “Career Builder,” Center -Mental Health Counselor ACA president will cost me in missed where counselors can research jobs, -Liaison to psychiatric hospitals and time at work. My wife will allow me internships and counseling programs. county jail. September 2005 to Current time away for ACA business as long as I Unity and Inclusion: The counseling The University of Memphis Adjunct do not miss our grandkids’ birthdays. I profession is weakened by insurance Faculty Practicum and Internship am running for ACA president because companies and TRICARE that will not Supervior Crisis Intervention Strategies. I care about ACA and professional recognize LPCs, with legislation that August 1999 to Current Memphis City counseling. I believe that a leader that cuts school counseling positions, the Schools Professional School Counselor - has demonstrated fiscal and marketing budgets of universities and counseling High School and Middle School experience is needed to guide ACA at departments. Unfortunately, we also self- Association experience this critical time. Personal agendas must divide ourselves. We have excluded ASCA Tennessee Counseling Association be replaced with actions that protect from committees, and the 56 branches - President 2006 Southern Region - and serve professional counselors. I are marginalized because they only have four votes on the governing board. I want Treasurer/ Secretary 2006-2007 Southern have three goals as ACA president: 1) to include all counselors and their unique Region - Chair - 2009-2010 Tennessee Strengthen Branches and Divisions; We contributions. United we stand, divided Association of Counselor Educators and will create a business marketing plan to we fall. Supervisors - President – Current bolster public perception of counselors and recruit members. ACA will assign ACA/Division/Branch mentors for membership recruitment and The United States is becoming memberships sponsorships. There is no problem that increasingly diverse, and counseling is Association for Counselor Education membership and money cannot solve. 2) becoming more global. It is critical to and Supervision Southern Association for Utilize Technology; Archiving conference increase the diversity among counselors. Counselor Education and Supervision sessions on the website, Twitter, How would you address this issue, and American Mental Health Counselors Facebook, and assistance in developing what steps would you take? Association American School Counselors websites and Listservs. 3) Unify the [email protected]. The Association National Education Profession; Legislators, school districts, counselors I have met understand Association Tennessee Counseling and universities minimize professional diversity. It is more important, as Association ALGBTIC - Tennessee counseling by cutting salaries and counselors, to model accepting behaviors - Charter Member Tennessee School counselor positions. The real enemy of because we are “role models” for our Counseling Association Tennessee Mental professional counseling is outside of our students and clients.
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 69 There is a difference between being excellent benefits, we only succeed if our accepting of people who are different customers know this, too. and standing up to be counted, creating As ACA president, to retain our new an inviting and inclusive environment. members, I will do the same as I did to For example, I am a charter member grow my business: Ensure maximum of Tennessee ALGBTIC. Creating this Division says that we are more than customer benefits and make sure that accepting; we are welcoming. As past counselors see and hear that message. Chair and Board member of Southern I will develop the same sales campaign Region, we continue to work with ACA used in businesses to convey the E. Christine Moll leadership to include ASCA in the 20/20 ACA message. ACA is a home for all discussion and work to revitalize the counselors. Education Georgia branch. ACA is a home for ALL PhD. Counselor Education and counselors. United we stand, divided we As ACA president, how would you Leadership MS Counselor Education BA fall. increase the visibility and public Religious Studies and Education A proven method to create an inclusive environment has been developed. How awareness of the counseling profession Certification and licensure does Coke sell so many sodas (or pop)? and ACA? Licensed Mental Health Counselor – They market their product globally and [email protected]. Marketing a NY NBCC embrace all without regard to skin color, business or marketing the counseling Current position gender, politics, wealth, physical ability or profession; both are sending messages to Chairperson & Counselor Educator: age. Coke has “sold” itself to the world, be heard and understood by customers. Department of Counseling & Human and the world has embraced Coke. I Pepsi does not sell flavored water. They Services will copy that philosophy as I did at the sell “refreshment,” “youth” and “fun.” Branch and Regional levels and market Professional experience ACA as a home for all counselors. ACA does not just collect dues. ACA Director of Counseling Services - Build it and they will come. provides benefits that one counselor, Canisius College Catholic Charities of alone, cannot achieve. WNY: Counselor for Geriatric In-home The membership of ACA continues to My plan is to market ACA, its Services Classroom Educator in Florida, New Jersey, and New York increase. However, the greatest increase is Divisions and Branches to counselors among students, many of whom do not and the public. ACA affiliation means a Association experience continue their membership once they better counselor and a better outcome AADA Representative to 20/20 graduate. How would you address the by affiliated counselors. Counselors 2005 Code of Ethics Taskforce AADA issue of retaining student members so President North Atlantic Region will want to be ACA members, and they continue as professional members Representative to Governing Council the public will identify ACA-affiliated for the duration of their careers? Executive Committee: ACA Governing [email protected]. I became an counselors as better counselors. Council President: New York Counseling ACA student member because my Under the ACA umbrella, I will work Association. Editorial Boards: Journal of professors knew that professional with all Divisions to create alliances with Counseling & Development, and AADA membership made a strong counseling schools and universities to demonstrate Adultspan profession. The ACA membership charts how ACA counselors are better equipped ACA/Division/Branch suggest that this pattern continues. to help students and schools. We will memberships Our issue is really to understand why aggressively market ACA counselors as ACA AADA ACES CSJ ASCA some members leave ACA after several providing a higher quality of counseling, ASERVIC years. As a business owner, I knew that customers left if they did not a better clinical understanding of client Awards and honors see value in my product. As a mental issues and as advocates of tolerance and Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Award for health counselor, school counselor and social justice. Teaching - Canisius College - School of counselor educator, I know how ACA I will create alliances between Education Invited Induction into Alpha membership impacts my professional ACA and state branches. Strong state Sigma Nu – the Jesuit Honor Society experience. What do I see in ACA that counseling associations are the backbone Association for Adult Development and they do not? of ACA and Divisions. ACA has the Aging: Presidential Mentoring Award, When a new counselor chooses to Leadership & Mentoring Award, and resources to help branches grow their join ACA, then they see a benefit. If Award for Professional Service Canisius they later quit ACA, then we must ask, membership. In turn, branches are fertile College I. Joan Lorch Award for Women’s “What are we doing, or not doing, ground for ACA and national Divisions Studies. (Recognition for significant that leaves that counselor wanting?” to promote their positions and recruit contributions to promote women’s causes Even if we believe that we deliver new members. on the campus and beyond.)
70 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Publications Community service underserved in our communities, and Kaplan, Kocet, Cottone, Glosoff, Annual Speaker: Youth Conference globally. Miranti, Moll, Bloom, Bringaze, Herlihy, Buffalo NY Assistant to Older Adults Lee, Tarvydas (2009). New mandates with winter chores Volunteer in my place Candidate questions and imperatives in the revised ACA code of worship. As president of ACA, what would be of ethics. Journal of Counseling and Qualifications and reasons your three top priorities? Why would Development. Moll, C. (2002). Older for seeking office these be your priorities, and how would adults and sexuality: What’s age got to Let me preface my answers to the you implement them? do with it? In L. Burlew, & D. Capuzzi, questions below with some additional My priorities stem from the mission of Sexuality counseling. Huntington, NY: information. All of my responses, are ACA in the 2005 Code of Ethics. In short, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Moll, made with deep appreciation for ACA they are as follows: E.C. (2002). In defense of T.J.’s mother: staff and leadership throughout our n “Professional development” Neonaticide and its implications for history, who worked tirelessly to address ACA’s journals, texts and Counseling counselors. Journal of Humanistic the needs of professional counselors Today provide invaluable information Education and Development 42(2). in support of what we do day-to- for those who choose to access the Burlew, L., Roland, C., & Moll, C. day, and promoted the profession of information. Question #3 inquires about (2001). An experiential workshop for counseling. My “goals” follow the tenets student membership. The real question is: meaning making in adulthood: The of ACA’s Mission, as the “next steps” How can ACA be attractive to day-to-day response of professional counselors. in: “Professional development” In the practitioners/clinicians, in addition to Adultspan Journal 2(2), 101-112. tradition of excellent regional/national counselors-in-training and their counselor Presentations conferences promoting current trends educators? Keynote Addresses Moll, E.C. (2010) in research, “best practices,” and future n “Advance the profession” “best practices,” let us continue to How tall are you on your professional Our ACA staff are competent develop: • Additional online self-paced growth chart? Oklahoma Counseling individuals who work daily to advance courses • Online conferences via web Association Winter Conference Moll, E.C. the profession, lobby for interests on resources (ex. “Eluminate” or “Avatar”) (2008). Women, Leadership, and Spiritu- Capitol Hill and promote all of us. • Provide support materials (CDs, video ality. The Utah State University Women’s Few, except the leaders in ACA, know clips, PowerPoint notes) to enhance ACA Center for Lifelong Learning Celebration of the day-to-day efforts of the ACA publications (texts, journals, etc). Let us of Women’s Studies Month, March 2008, staff. Perhaps the assistance of a public convey that we realize the difficulty for Logan, UT. Moll, E.C. (2008). Counsel- relations firm to expertly put our “name” individuals to maintain costs associated ing: More than a Job - Bridging Gaps, and “brand” out to the public could help. with conference attendance in one’s Influencing Lives. ACA-Virgin Islands I expand on this thought in my answer to budget, and recognize that employers Annual Conference. March 2008, St. the fourth question. are limited in supporting professional Croix, VI. Moll, E.C. (2007) Our love n development financially and providing “Expand the promotion of human is here to stay, or when I’m 64 is way too extended time away from the office. dignity and diversity” close for comfort! AADA Annual Mini “Advance the profession” Resting on ACA took the lead among social Conference, Beaumont, Tx. August 2007. our laurels is not an option. Professional service organizations in the promotion of Invited Presentations: Moll, E.C. (2009). identity/esteem remain enigmas. “dignity,” “diversity” and “multicultural From Backpacks to briefcases: Making the Visibility is everything. Collaboration awareness.” Leaders emerged from the transition from graduate student to profes- within the entities of ACA, and building ranks of AMCD, AGLBIC and CSJ. We sional counselor. Graduate student and coalitions with our collegial associations are “men and women for others.” The new professional institute. ACA Annual to create change for those we serve, following question/answer delineates Conference, Charlotte, NC. Reiner, S. & will advance the profession and our a plan to welcome culturally diverse Moll, E.C. (2009). Career transitioning: professional association. Let us explore individuals to our profession. Building a resilient identity or a quest to ways to publicly promote who we are and find self? An AADA sponsored program, what we do. WE ARE COUNSELORS! The United States is becoming and a workshop with the Lifespan Devel- “Expand the promotion of human increasingly diverse, and counseling is opment and Career certificate series. ACA dignity and diversity” Standing on becoming more global. It is critical to Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC. Moll, the shoulders of those who promoted increase the diversity among counselors. E.C. (2007). Developing our professional “dignity and worth,” and development How would you address this issue, and identity within ourselves and our profes- the multicultural competencies, today, what steps would you take? sional associations. ACA Southern Region we are “men and women for others” – in For well over 20 years, ACA (and its Leadership Conference, Williamsburg, our offices/classrooms, and by the lives various Divisions) has promoted global VA. Moll, E.C. (2007). Step by step, inch we live beyond our workplaces. I suggest, awareness, diversity and multicultural by inch, slowly I turn: Strategic planning we are ALL called to be “Counselors competence. A number of individuals for branch leaders. ACA Southern Region for Social Justice” – advocating for our who challenged us to “be aware” emerged Leadership Conference, Williamsburg, VA. constituencies, our profession, for those as ACA leaders. We have achieved much,
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 71 but new challenges await our attention. n Preparing ACA leaders to be “camera We are (more than) ENOUGH. Let us Anecdotal information suggests that ready.” That is, train leaders for TV trust that message and give that message we have first- and second-generation interviews, to focus on the camera, to our students and our clients. Let the immigrants or refugees from around the cogently expressing concise responses world know. world enrolled in counselor education with a professional counseling twist. programs throughout Florida, New York, n Public advertisements highlighting Association for Texas, Arizona, California and in various the work of members, and invite our Assessment in cities across the country as emerging colleagues to join in the good work. Counseling and counseling professionals. These budding Education counseling professionals are potentially n Publicly coalescing with sister associa- tions to provide our members with perfect mentors to the youth in urban President-Elect and underserved communities. benefits not afforded to professional Let us partner with AmeriCorps and non-ACA-member counselors. other “service learning” entities to have Let us creatively construct a Amanda C. Healey professional culture in which our counselors-in-training work with, Professional background membership in ACA is “professional mentor and inspire undergraduate and experience disposition” and another way we students in psychology programs and Assistant Professor of Counseling, ethically serve our clients, as our medical urban youth. Let us invite counselor Sam Houston State University, Conroe, doctors serve us. educators and practitioners in a region TX. Education: PhD, Counselor Educa- to join with our counseling candidates. tion (Old Dominion University); M.A., As ACA president, how would you In so doing, we not only “walk the Counseling, MFT (East Tennessee State increase the visibility and public talk” — but give a living example of the University); B.S., Biology and Psychology awareness of the counseling profession “definition of professional counseling,” (East Tennessee State University). Certi- and ACA? while inviting a new, diverse generation fication and Licensure: Licensed Profes- Our ACA staff does an excellent job of professionals to assume our roles. sional Counselor - TN, National Certi- with resources that can be limited. I Secondary by-products of our efforts fied Counselor. Recent Professional Expe- propose that we empower their efforts could be public awareness of our rience: Assistant Professor of Counseling by hiring a public relations firm to “put profession and an increase of pride in the at Sam Houston State (2010-Present) us on the map” of similar organizations profession, thus increasing practitioner currently teaching group and practicum, representing professionals who build membership! SACES Newsletter co-editor (’08-Pres- “relationship(s) that empower diverse ent), statistical consultant, paid reviewer individuals, families and groups to The membership of ACA continues to Brooks/Cole. ACA Branch, Division and accomplish mental health, wellness, increase. However, the greatest increase is Affiliate Membership and Other Related among students, many of whom do not education and career goals” (2010, Memberships: ACA, AACE, CSI, CSJ, continue their membership once they ACA 20/20 Initiative’s Definition of ACES, ASGW, AMCD, SACES, AWP, graduate. How would you address the Counseling). NASAP. Association Experience: AACE issue of retaining student members so Contracting the services of a public NewsNotes editor (’09-Present), CSJ they continue as professional members relations firm would increase the public Membership committee (’08-’10), ACA for the duration of their careers? awareness of the counseling profession Publications committee (’09-Present), Do we not assume our physician and ACA and potentially increase ACA CSI awards co-chair, CORE and CES and dentist to be a member of AMA membership. In collaborating with journal editorial board member. Awards ACA leadership and staff, a PR firm will or ADA, participating in ongoing and Honors: (selected) ACA Glen E. develop a marketing strategy that would professional development? I wonder Hubele award (2009); CSJ ‘Ohana award achieve (at the very least) the following if our clients and families of our (2010); ACES Outstanding Dissertation objectives: schoolchildren expect the same of us? Award (2010); AMCD Daya & Mrs. In conversations about “membership,” n Select a niche, a “brand” in which Usha K. Sandhu Research Award (2009). I learned that people: ACA can be known as a leader Publications and Presentations: Seven n In counseling offices “purchase” n Concentrate our resources on our refereed articles published or in press, one membership, so as to share the strengths, using the best medium primarily in top-tier counseling journals; journals and materials to stimulate public awareness, and one book contribution published; six strengthen public perception about non-refereed articles and publications; n Appreciate that ACA exists, but many professional counselors six manuscripts and one invited book see no reason to belong chapter in review; over 30 professional Our challenge is to make “membership” n Increase the strength of search engine presentations and workshops, primarily a responsibility, not an option. visibility presented nationally and internationally. In concert with current efforts of the n Create a slogan, i.e. a concise phrase Community Service: PFLAG group facili- ACA staff, let us create a marketing that summarizes our core message tator and volunteer, Planned Parenthood strategy that includes: into a few memorable words volunteer counselor.
72 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Qualifications and reasons Carl J. Sheperis this role, I work with representatives from for seeking office other professional groups to advocate for Professional background I am excited to have this opportunity to competency-based assessment legislation and experience throughout the United States. Like the earn your support as candidate for AACE Certification and Licensure: president. Over the last few years, I have majority of you, I see assessment as a Nationally Certified Counselor, Licensed critical component in the counseling been honored to serve in leadership and Professional Counselor (MS), Approved process and believe in a counselor’s right service roles in several ACA divisions. Clinical Supervisor Recent Professional to test. I have also served AACE in a In service to AACE, I have worked Experience: Director of Doctoral number of other roles (Conference Co- closely with two past-presidents and Programs, School of Counseling and Chair, Member-at-Large for Publications, the membership to produce the AACE Social Service, Walden University since Test Review Editor, and ad hoc reviewer newsletter, NewsNotes. I have always 2009; Professor at Mississippi State for Measurement and Evaluation). I University from 1999-2009; Managing perceived AACE to be a welcoming consider AACE my professional home partner in Behavioral Services LLC organization with a family-like way of and am committed to the vitality of since 1999; Association Experience: our organization. Aside from my work relating to one another. As president, Conference Co-Chair, Chair Public I hope to maintain this atmosphere. with AACE, I have had leadership Policy and Legislation, Member-At- opportunities in other organizations Since joining, I have presented at Large Publications, Test Review Editor, and have received numerous awards each conference and worked with the Ad hoc reviewer for Measurement and for my work as a counselor educator. president-elect, Dr. Danica Hays, to Evaluation, Recipient of Donald Hood It is a critical juncture for AACE and organize the 2009 conference in Norfolk. Award, Member since 1996 ACA Branch, my combined leadership experiences I have served as the editorial assistant Division and Affiliate Membership, and uniquely qualify me for the office of and now serve on the editorial board for Other Related Memberships: IAMFC, President-elect. Like many counseling ACES, and C-AHEAD; Member Board our new journal Counseling Outcome organizations, we are challenged by of Directors for the Fair Access Coalition Research and Evaluation. Through declining membership numbers. It is on Testing Awards and Honors: 2010 imperative that we determine a new my involvement with AACE, I have ACA Counselor Education Advocacy learned what this organization values method for maintaining our current Award, Herbert Handley Research membership pool and attracting and how this division serves as a critical Award, Mississippi State University, other counseling professionals to our advocate for the continued growth of 2007; Outstanding Pre-tenure ranks. If elected, I will make this my the counseling profession and for parity Counselor Educator, SACES, 2005; utmost priority. I will strive to increase with other mental health professionals. Outstanding Researcher, Mississippi membership in AACE by actively As president, I will continue to support Counseling Association, 2003; Donald promoting our organization, maintaining efforts to promote our profession through Hood Research Award, AACE, 1999 the integrity of our journals, and Publications and Presentations: I have legislative initiatives, particularly in continuing the tradition of excellence in published or have in press over 100 the areas of testing, assessment, and our annual conference. articles, book chapters, books, and test diagnosis. The future of this division reviews. I have presented my work at the relies on support for research within international, national, state, regional, Treasurer the counseling field (particularly and local levels. I attend and present outcome-based initiatives) and stronger annually at the National Assessment collaborations with other divisions Conference. Andrew M. Burck to create a platform for professional Qualifications and reasons Professional background advocacy efforts. As an advocate for for seeking office and experience the profession, I will attend to possible I am honored to be nominated for Dr. Burck is an assistant professor at revisions of the multicultural assessment President-elect of AACE and look Marshall University. He obtained his standards. I will also reach out to the forward to continuing my service to Ph.D. in Counselor Education and membership to identify needed additional our organization. I have been invested Supervision from the University of services, provide an array of professional in the association since attending my Toledo, and his M.Ed. in Community opportunities for counselors serving in first assessment conference as a doctoral Counseling from Kent State University. student in the early 90’s. Over the years, Dr. Burck is a Licensed Professional a variety of roles (practitioner/educator/ I have taken every opportunity to serve Counselor in the State of Colorado and student), increase our membership, and AACE. Currently, I serve the association a Professional Counselor in the State of create a place where everyone can feel as the Chair of Public Policy and Ohio. Dr. Burck and his colleagues have the sense of family I have felt during my Legislation. As part of that role, I have published articles on assessing faking on time with AACE. Thank you for your the privilege of being your representative the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening thoughtful consideration of my candidacy on the Board of Directors for the Fair Inventory-3(SASSI-3), assessing the for president-elect. Access Coalition on Testing. Through relationship between the Universal-
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 73 Diverse Orientation and the California assessment and diagnostic techniques in income for the association. I believe Psychological Inventory, and assessing the mental health and career counseling. I counselor competence in assessment and relationship between reported criminal am coauthor of Mastering the National diagnosis is vital to the advancement of behavior and scores on the Correctional Counselor Examination and Counselor our profession. Accordingly, as a member Scale on the SASSI-3. Dr. Burck recently Preparation Comprehensive Examination, of the executive council, I will also work presented at the annual Association for and was invited to coauthor an article to support AACE’s mission by identifying Assessment in Counseling and Education examining the publishing trends in and advocating for initiatives that support Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. He Counselor Education and Supervision. excellence in assessment and diagnosis in presented on assessment of deception and The article was published in the journal’s the field of counseling. the MMPI-2 RF. Dr. Burck will also be fall 2010 anniversary issue. In 2009, I presenting at this year’s SACES and ACA received the ACCA Emerging Leader conferences. He is the faculty adviser for Award for my leadership in college K. Dayle Jones the Mu Upsilon chapter of Chi Sigma counseling and I am currently working Professional background Iota, and is a site team member for the on a grant-funded project involving and experience Council for Accreditation of Counseling career assessment procedures for I am associate professor and and Related Education Programs. Dr. international students. I have presented coordinator of the Mental Health Burck has been a member of the Specialty at numerous state, regional, and Counseling program at the University Standard and Statements Committee and national conferences on topics related to of Central Florida. I’d like to discuss the Use of Assessment Committee for assessment and outcome research. I also some of my professional background AACE. serve as the CSI Omega Delta chapter and experiences that has prepared me President and on ACCA’s professional Qualifications and reasons for the position of treasurer of AACE. development committee. for seeking office As a counselor educator for the last 14 My interest in this position started Qualifications and reasons years, I’ve had the opportunity to provide because of my desire to help this division for seeking office service to the profession by serving as treasurer, secretary, and president of the the best I can so that it can grow and to I am honored to be nominated to Counseling Association for Humanistic assist in helping others with importance serve as treasurer for AACE. I have been Counseling, Education and Development of assessment in the counseling field. As actively involved in AACE for several (C-AHEAD). I gained considerable a member of this division for some time years, presenting at the association’s experience working as treasurer, and, I have been able to interact and assist national conferences, writing articles on with a Bachelor’s degree in finance, I the division through committees such as research practices for the association’s feel well prepared to perform this very the Specialty Standard and Statements newsletter, NewsNotes, and assisting important position for AACE. I currently Committee and the Use of Assessment president-elect, Dr. Danica Hays, with serve on the Journal of Counseling and Committee. I have also been involved the 2009 AACE conference. I also Development and Counseling and Value by my actions at the conferences; codeveloped a test critique template that editorial boards, and have previous board however, the role of the treasurer will is used for test reviews in NewNotes experience with the Journal for Specialists provide a greater role in this division. I and on the AACE website, and will in Group Work and the Journal for have had other roles of responsibly in be copresenting an AACE-sponsored Humanistic Counseling, Education other divisions of the counseling field, session at the 2011 ACA Conference in and Development. I’m also a member for example as the chapter adviser for New Orleans. I wholeheartedly support of the ACA DSM-5 Task Force and multiple universities and as a site team AACE’s mission to promote and advance am currently writing a series of articles member for CACREP. However, of all the practice of assessment and diagnosis about the DSM-5 for Counseling Today. the groups that I am involved with, in the field of counseling. I look forward I’ve published many nationally refereed this is the group that I very passionate to the opportunity to further my service journal articles as well as coauthored two about supporting the growth and the to AACE in a leadership position and textbooks: Assessment Procedures for development of the division and as the believe I am prepared to serve. I currently Counselors and Helping Professionals treasurer I will have the opportunity oversee the CSI Omega Delta chapter (7th Ed.) and Introduction to the to assist in the continual growth of the budget as the organization’s president. Profession of Counseling. division. I worked with the executive board to develop an annual budget and closely Qualifications and reasons work with the chapter’s treasurer to Stephanie A. Crockett for seeking office ensure that the organization’s spending I am honored to have been nominated Professional background stays within budget. Also, as president, as treasurer of AACE. As a counselor and experience I actively seek out and identify external educator, my research interests include I, Stephanie Crockett, am a Nationally sources of funding for our chapter. As assessment and diagnosis; thus, I Certified Counselor (NCC) and doctoral AACE treasurer, I will work closely with fully support the AACE mission of candidate in the counselor education the president and executive council to promoting and recognizing scholarship, program at Old Dominion University. maintain AACE’s financial record, as professionalism, leadership, and My research interests include the use of well as seek out additional sources of excellence in the development and use
74 | Counseling Today | December 2010 of assessment and diagnostic techniques Board, Counseling & Values; Editorial In addition, I will strive to expand the in counseling. I am seeking AACE office Board, Elementary School Guidance association’s membership by encouraging to play an active role in promoting the & Counseling; Editor, VCA Journal; young adults and individuals of all ages, organization and in maintaining its Editor, VCA Newsletter; President, ethnicities, and orientations to join. I will tradition of excellence. As a counselor VA ASERVIC. Awards and Honors: ensure diversity by promoting awareness educator, I’ve had the opportunity to Winner of 2006 AADA Pathfinders’ teach both the assessment and diagnosis Essay Contest; 2006 Darden College of of how incredibly accepting, welcoming, classes for the last 14 years. From this Education Award for Innovation and and relevant AADA is. Having been experience, I recognize the importance Excellence in Teaching, ODU; 1996 inspired by my students, and by an of promoting the professionalism of ACA Best Journal Award as Editor extraordinary parent (my father, who was counseling through the appropriate use of the Virginia Counselors Journal. an exemplar to me), I hope to inspire of assessment. I believe that effectiveness Scholarship: Two books: Horton-Parker, others to appreciate the opportunities for R., & Fawcett, R.C. (2010). Spirituality and accuracy in assessment are essential growth and change that arise across the to effective counseling. Assessment in counseling and psychotherapy: The adult lifespan. As we enter this “new age is inextricably intertwined with the FACE-SPIRIT model. Denver, CO: counseling process — counselors are Love; Horton-Parker, R., & Brown, N. of aging,” I will do my utmost to usher always assessing throughout the course (2002). The unfolding life: Counseling in a new paradigm, in which the wisdom of intervention. As such, I believe across the lifespan. Westport, CT: Bergin of later adulthood, the generativity of that it is vital to promote professional & Garvey; as well as 21 publications in middle adulthood and the vibrancy of development to enhance competence in ACA journals, and two ACA instructional early adulthood are equally esteemed. assessment, evaluation, measurement, videos. Recent Presentations: Horton- I will do my best to make AADA the Parker, R., Makris, P., & Currie, C. and research for counselors, counselor premier organization for living long and educators, and other professionals. (2010, July). How to age well: Wise well — and for achieving adult human Regarding my qualifications for the women speak out. AADA Summer position of treasurer, my previous Conference, Manhattan, NY.; Horton- flourishing at its fullest. experience as treasurer of C-AHEAD, as Parker, R., & Fawcett, R.C. (2009, well as my Bachelor’s degree in finance, March). Challenges of caring helps me feel well prepared and qualified for older adults: Solutions from an Treasurer to perform the duties of treasurer for Adlerian approach. ACA Convention, AACE. Overall, I am committed to Charlotte, NC. Patricia Goodspeed-Grant providing service and support that Qualifications and reasons promotes the professionalization of for seeking office Professional background assessment in counseling. If elected, my I am honored to be nominated as and experience priority will be to promote AACE and AADA’s President-Elect. While teaching Ed.D., Counseling and Human facilitate its mission and purpose. over 40 Lifespan Development classes Development, University of Rochester in my 24 years in counselor education, N.C.C., Licensed Mental Health Association for Adult I have witnessed, via my students’ Development and Aging stories and experiences, the triumph Counselor, New York Member of of the human spirit over unbelievable ACA, ACES, AADA. NYMHCA President-Elect adversity. Their strength, resiliency and Chair, Strategic Planning, New York extraordinary courage inspired me to Mental Health Counselors Association Radha Janis Horton-Parker write my lifespan development textbook Publications: Goodspeed-Grant, P. & and motivated me to seek the leadership Boersma, H. (2005). Making sense Professional background of AADA. We live in an unprecedented of being fat: A hermeneutic analysis and experience epoch that will witness the “graying” of a of adults’ explanations for obesity. Education: Ph.D. Counselor large portion of our population. I believe Education, M.Ed. Counselor Education, that AADA has a special responsibility Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, M.Ed. Reading Education, M.A. to address this major demographic 5(3), 212-220. Goodspeed-Grant, P. Religious Studies, University of shift through research, publishing, and (2008). Food for the soul: Social and Virginia; B.A. Philosophy, Christopher training. Consequently, if selected, I emotional origins of comfort eating in Newport College. Certification: will strive to convey the timely message the morbidly obese. In Buckroyd, J. & S. NCC, NCSC. Current Professional that we can add years to our life and Rother (Eds.), Psychological Responses Experience: Associate Professor: life to our years by cultivating the to Eating Disorders and Obesity (2008). Old Dominion University. Current habits associated with optimal adult Association Experience: Chair, AADA development. In keeping with our slogan, Chichester, Wiley. Goodspeed Grant, P. Awards Committee; Editorial Board, “Adulthood Matters,” I plan to create & Mackie, K. (2007). Social Class. In ADULTSPAN Journal. Previous new opportunities for learning through Culturally alert counseling, McAuliffe, G. Association Experience: Editorial workshops, contests, and networking. (Ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage.
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 75 Qualifications and reasons Qualifications and reasons Director to TCA Board 2002-2005; for seeking office for seeking office TSCA President 1988 ACA, AADA, When I joined the AADA family a I have been an active member of AACE, NECA, TCA, TAAC, TACES, couple of years ago, I was immediately AADA since 2007, becoming increasingly TAADA, TAHEAD, TxAMCD, TxCSJ recruited to run for treasurer. I involved through my participation as TCA Presidential Award, Outstanding eagerly accepted the responsibility, a Graduate Student member and then TACES Supervisor, Molly Gerold and I continue to be dedicated to the a New Professional Member. I am Human Rights Award, Outstanding responsibilities of this office. I believe committed to the mission of promoting School Counselor, Texas Attorney that responsible stewardship of the lifelong development and well being of General Appointee-Safe Schools Project, organization’s resources will help AADA adults across the lifespan. I have been Governor Appointee-Safe Schools’ Center maximize what we already have, as well responsible for budgeting of projects National, state and local presenter; author as enable us to pursue new ventures that and oversight of organizational budgets several articles and book sections Court will be of service to both our members in prior job/organization roles. I Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and the populations we serve. I have recognize the importance of sound fiscal Volunteer 2002-present management and providing maximum learned a great deal from the staff at ACA Qualifications and reasons benefits for members. I have held officer headquarters, and learned that there for seeking office positions in a variety of organizations is no question that I can ask they have Goals Statement Serving on the AADA and look forward to the opportunity to not been extremely helpful with. I am Board for several years and especially further serve AADA, in support of the an associate professor at the College at as AADA President, I gained valuable Brockport, State University of New York. goals and objectives of the leadership insight into the needs of the members I have held several leadership positions team. of this division. As AADA Member at in regional counseling organizations, Large, Branch Divisions, my goals are including Strategic Planning Chair at the to: • work closely with all of the AADA state level, and secretary of the regional Member-at-Large, state branch divisions, • assist states level of the New York Mental Health Branch Divisions to identify, develop and expand state Counselors Association. My goals, if branch divisions of AADA, • promote a I were to continue as treasurer, are to Carolyn A. Greer reciprocal relationship with the branch continue to be transparent when making divisions so that both AADA and the any financial decisions and to report the Professional background branch divisions can increase membership financial affairs of AADA in a timely and experience and involvement of our members, • way that is easily understood. I would Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M build on the AADA mission to help continue to focus on providing details University-Central Texas, 1901 S. Clear counselors across the branch divisions to about financial trends that will enable the Creek Road, Killeen, TX 76549 ED.D., understand the needs across the lifespan executive board to make decisions with UNT, Educational Administration & that impact each developmental stage and the long-range view of AADA’s financial Counseling; M.Ed., UNT, Counseling & their impact upon the next and future picture in mind. Student Services; TCU, Special Education stages, • interact closely with branch Endorsement; UNT, B.A., English Texas divisions and encourage more counselors Amy Zavadil LPC, LPC Supervisor; Certified Texas to become interested and educated Professional Counselor, Superintendent, about a growing aging population, and Professional background Mid-Management Administrator, Teacher to learn how important counseling can and experience Private Practice, Adjunct Professor, be to increasing the happiness, well- I have my M.A. in Counseling and TX A&M – Central Texas, Supervisor, being, and productivity of this group, Advanced Certificate in Counseling at Counselor Interns AADA: President and, • foster the efforts of both AADA Montclair State University. I am currently 2007–2009, Secretary 2004–2006; ACA: and branch divisions to involve graduate a student affairs professional at New York Public Policy and Legislation Committee, students for strengthening the future of University. As the current president of 1999–2001 (Chair 2001), Government the organizations. With my experience, the Chi Sigma Mu chapter of Chi Sigma Relations Committee 1991–1993; ACA professional knowledge and numerous Iota, I am in my third year as an officer representative Healthy Students’ Project leadership roles, I believe I can serve with our Chapter. I also serve on the in collaboration with APA and ASCA, AADA to accomplish these goals. Community Engagement committee 2000–present; ASCA Public Relations of Chi Sigma Iota, International. As a Chair, 1996–1998; ACES School Issues Wendy Killam Graduate Assistant I was the Editorial Chair, 1995–1997, NCDA School & Assistant for the Adultspan Journal, Business SIG Chair, 1995–2000; TCA Professional background publication of AADA, and am currently President 1998; TAADA President 2004– and experience the AADA Newsletter Editor. In addition 2006; TAAC President 2003–2005, My name is Wendy Killam and I am an to ACA and AADA, I am a member of Director 2005–present; TACES President associate professor at Stephen F. Austin NASPA and the Association for Student 1995–1996; TCDA President 1996– State University in Texas where I direct Conduct Administration. 1997; TAHEAD President 2001-2002, the clinical mental health counseling
76 | Counseling Today | December 2010 program. I have a Ph.D. in Counselor mentorship and formalize the mentorship Qualifications and reasons Education and have taught on the college by providing additional opportunities. for seeking office level. Additionally, I have experience This would be an area in which Quite simply, I love our division. I working in various counseling settings. I collaboration with state divisions promote love the people, I love the journal, I love hold a LPC license in Texas and a LCPC both individual growth of its members the opportunity to create an inclusive license in Kansas. I am also a CRC and as well as the growth of state divisions. community where all kinds of creativity NCC and have a supervisor endorsement In addition to continuing the current in our counseling profession can be on my LPC license. I have been involved delivery of services, linking AADS to state celebrated, supported, and encouraged. with ACA and its divisions and branches divisions and developing new ways to Prior to the inception of ACC, I was serving in various leadership positions at provide services, there is room for growth. part of a group of faculty at Texas State the both the state and national level. I In the past there have been recruitment University that offered the Creativity have served as secretary for TACES and efforts and these methods need to be in Counseling Conference. It was out KACES. I have also served as secretary. evaluated to determine what has worked. of this annual conference and through The most relevant to this position are New methods of recruitment will need the persistence and dedication of ACC’s that I have served as both president and to be considered. Thus, a comprehensive founding president that ACC emerged. treasurer for AADA. I am also on the recruitment plan to attract new members As a founding board member of ACC, editorial board for Adultspan and I am to AADA and its state divisions would I have been honored to have been part the strategic planning committee co- need to be systematically implemented. of the history of ACC and as a current chair. By serving on the AADA board in board member, I am excited to be part the past I have a strong understanding of of its current growth and development. the organization’s current needs and issues Association for In September of this year, I volunteered facing the organization. My background Creativity in Counseling to serve as the chair of the newly re- with the organization has allowed me established conference: this time, a to understand the current membership President-Elect national conference for ACC. The 2010 situation and membership’s needs. ACC Creativity in Counseling conference Qualifications and reasons was extraordinary! It validated all the for seeking office Stella Beatriz Kerl-McClain reasons that I remain so committed to this division: we are creating spaces My goals include helping refine Professional background and relationships in which all of this and implement AADA’s strategic plan and experience especially areas related to membership. amazing work, where creativity, diversity, I am currently an Associate Professor and relationship can be celebrated. My Membership is the heart of AADA. I and codirector of the Community will work with the board to find ways to goal as president would be to continue Counseling program at Lewis and Clark to provide these spaces, through future continue meeting the membership needs. College in Portland, Oregon. I have Thus, using available technology, I would conferences, through the journal and the been in Portland for six years; prior like to explore ways members could newsletter, through our Day of Learning to that, I was a faculty member in the connect on a regular basis. Membership at the ACA conference, and mainly Community Counseling Program at needs to continue to be provided with through relationships with each other. I Texas State University – San Marcos resources to remain effective and stay hope to find ways to better allow us to for 10 years. I am a founding board on the cutting edge. AADA has an communicate with each other so that we member of the Association for Creativity excellent journal and newsletter that can build our community into a strong, in Counseling and have continued to helps members stay abreast of current nurturing place of belonging. issues. As technology evolves, there are serve on the board since its inception. new ways the organization can reach I chaired the (amazing and fun!) out to membership and collaborate with 2010 ACC Creativity in Counseling Trustee state divisions. In using technology, Conference in Portland in September, and have served on the editorial board AADA can continue to collaborate and Julie Strentzsch link with state divisions and help state for the Journal of Creativity in Mental divisions link with each other. I would Health since it was first published. I have Professional background like to implement ways AADA can written many articles for the Association and experience continue to link with state divisions for Play Therapy newsletter and have Dr. Julie Strentzsch has been involved on various collaborative projects and written for the ACC newsletter as well. I with the social services field for 19 years. conferences. Additionally, there has been have several publications in a number of She began her career at the ground level, a strong focus on mentorship of graduate journals related to diversity, gate-keeping, working with at-risk youth. Her passion students. This focus on the professional and sexuality. In previous years, I have for working with these individuals development and opportunities for been a member of several ACA divisions inspired her to continue her education. personal and professional growth for (AMCD, ASERVIC, ALGBTIC); Dr. Strentzsch received her Master’s graduate students and members needs to however, my primary focus in terms of in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Counselor continue. Another goal is to encourage service has been ACC. Education in 2008. She currently has
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 77 her license as a Professional Counselor American College what it is like to enter this organization and Supervisor. Recently she began Counseling Association as a graduate student, to be welcomed, teaching at St. Mary’s University, where mentored and put to work. It is equally as she oversees the Neurofeedback program. President-Elect gratifying to be part of this organization In addition, she has a small private as a professional who can give back while continuing to absorb all that the practice and adjuncts at the University Monica Z. Osburn of Texas at San Antonio. She has served membership has to offer. ACCA has in many leadership positions over the Professional background always been my professional family. I years and attained a number of awards. and experience have truly benefited from the leadership, advocacy and professional resources Dr. Strentzsch joined Chi Sigma Iota in Monica Zozone Osburn Director of that have come with being a part of 2002 and served as the Secretary in 2007. Counseling, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC Education: this group. Those three areas are the Dr. Strentzsch has published articles in Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Counselor cornerstone to a successful association the ACA Encyclopedia of Counseling as Education; M.A., The College of New and the main areas of focus for me well as The Journal for Counseling and Jersey, Counseling. Certification and should I be elected. Leadership must Development. Dr. Strentzsch belongs to a Licensure: LPC, NCC, ACS Association come in several forms: Mentoring for our number of associations but is most active Experience: Chair, ACCA Corporate graduate students and new professionals; in TACES. She received the Who’s Who Sponsorship (2004-Present); ACCA State A strong voice to ensure ACCA is at the in Graduate student’s award in 2002 and Branches (2003-2004) ACA Branch, table for all issues in college counseling; again in 2010 for Who’s Who for College Division and Affiliate Membership: and an executive team that focuses on and University Faculty. Dr. Strentzsch Past-President NCCCA (2003-2005). the organization, its members and their continues to volunteer with agencies with Member of ACA, ACCA, AADA, ACES, needs. Advocacy for the students that a focus on helping at-risk youth. IAAOC, AUCCCD. Liaison from we serve, our college counselors and AUCCCD to NBCC for continuing centers on a state and national level Qualifications and reasons education for LPCs. ADULTSPAN must be a priority. Our profession is for seeking office Journal Board (2004-Present). impacted daily with ever changing I am seeking the office of Trustee Publications and Presentations: Back to laws, media attention and crisis events. for the Association of Creativity in school: Counseling college substance Particular attention needs to be focused Counseling to continue my mission abusers, Addiction Professional; Parents’ on proposed confidentiality changes, to promote a creative counseling perceptions of standardized testing: staff to student counseling center ratios environment for all. When I speak to Its relationship and effect on student and opportunities for our graduate others about Creativity in Counseling achievement, Educational Research and students in counseling center training I often hear the refrain “that’s great for Policy Studies Journal; Counselor-In- programs. ACCA does a phenomenal job you, but I could never be that creative.” Residence: A Counseling Service Model of providing state of the art professional I once thought this about myself, but as For Residential College Students. Journal resources. From the national conference, I grow as a counselor and an educator, I of College Counseling; Presented over to the website, to Visions and the have come to believe that each of us can, 50 national, regional, state and invited Journal of College Counseling; We need and do, enhance others to grow through presentations. Below are a few with the to continue assisting our membership college population. Dissociative Identity creativity. My passion lies with exploring with professional development. I am Disorder on a College Campus: Does It and researching the creative possibilities committed to this organization and Really Exist and How Do You Treat It? that can be discovered in the field of would be honored to serve in this College Counseling Care: What do our capacity. Neurofeedback and relationships. I hope minority students need from a counselor?. to create this opportunity by giving ACC Being a Parent While Running the Office: members a forum to engage in research How to handle Maternity/Paternity Treasurer and support of neurofeedback and Leave. Eating Disorders and College biofeedback in the field. I am committed Women Athletes: Counseling/Case to working hard to promote creativity Management Interventions. Counselors- David J. Denino in all forms for wellness and hope for a In-Residence: An innovative approach to Professional background crisis response on a college campus. day when Neurofeedback can be offered and experience as services to anyone in underserved Qualifications and reasons Title Director Emeritus, Counseling populations. After volunteering for ACC for seeking office Services Adjunct Professor of Counseling in Pittsburgh and Portland, I am even I started working with ACCA 12 years and School Psychology (1986-present) more interested in working to see this ago when I began my career in college Southern Connecticut State University, organization continuing to grow and counseling after leaving community New Haven, CT Education: Southern develop. I eagerly look forward to the mental health. Currently, I serve as the Connecticut State University B.S. 1975; opportunity to serve and promote the Director of Counseling at The University M.S. 1976 Counseling. University of mission of ACC. of North Carolina at Pembroke. I know Connecticut - advanced graduate study.
78 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Certification and Licensure: CT Licensed quality and quantity of work that needs chapter, holding offices each year and Professional Counselor and Nationally to be done nationally, and I hope to currently serving as the community Certified Counselor. Certified with continue that work by once again serving services chair. American Red Cross for Disaster/Mental on the executive council of ACCA as Health Services. Recent Professional treasurer. At Southern Connecticut State, Qualifications and reasons Experience: Thirty five years experience I received appointments to a wide variety for seeking office in counseling, student affairs, and college of campus teams and committees. Among Through my work with college administration. Clinical proficiency in them have been enrollment management, students in counseling, advising, and counseling college students; areas of academic standings, case review, strategic career exploration I have noted the expertise in suicide prevention/education, planning, emergency response, and served incredible variety of demographics and safe zones training for LBGT population, as the only counselor/student affairs clinical issues available to those who career psychology, and clinical internship member on the Institutional Review work in college counseling. College programs. Related Memberships/ Board. Having recently retired after a counselors, whether at two-year, four- Previous Offices Held: ACA ACCA 35 year career at SCSU, I was granted year, or community colleges, juggle (past EC Member/Secretary) CT emeritus status and remain active as multiple roles in order to meet the many Counseling Association (past Governing a part time graduate faculty member developmental and personal needs of and Executive Council) CT Career in counseling and school psychology, students. I find this variety very exciting, Counselors Association (past president). teaching classes and providing supervision and my passion for college counseling Awards and Honors: 2007 J. Philip Smith as a clinical site supervisor. My work as has resulted in my resolve to pursue a Outstanding Teaching Award at SCSU; a college counselor, administrator, and professional identity within the field. I Red Cross award for service as first faculty member has given me much have found ACCA to be an invaluable responder to Katrina; Past Outstanding expertise in being able to forward the resource in its support of the professional Emerging Leader, CT Counseling work of college counselors on a local development of all members. The listserv Association; CT Counselor of the year and national basis; I look forward to is full of practical advice and resources, award, 1991. Awarded emeritus status continuing that work. and ACCA’s leadership is continually upon retirement in 2010. Publications looking for ways to enhance the and Presentations: Numerous association. As a student, I am indebted presentations for CT Counseling Graduate Student to ACCA for its grant programs, which Association; Past presenter at ACCA Member-at-Large have allowed me to attend both ACA and and NASPA conferences. Consultant/ ACCA conferences on a limited budget. Presenter for CT State Departments of Education, Labor, and Rehabilitation Hannah Bayne I have had the opportunity to present Services. my own research at ACCA’s national Professional background conference, as well assist the conference Qualifications and reasons and experience coordinators by organizing and leading for seeking office I received my master’s degree in theme dinners to provide attendees All of my experience has been with community counseling from the with networking and collaboration college students at the center of my work. College of William and Mary, and am opportunities. As a graduate student, Student development has always been the currently pursuing my doctoral degree I know that it can be difficult to get most critical and seminal responsibility in Counselor Education and Supervision involved, or to see professional identity at Old Dominion University. I am we have as counselors and student affairs as something worth pursuing before professionals. The appropriate delivery also a Nationally Certified Counselor graduation. If elected as the Graduate of these services is critical to personal working toward licensure. My experience Student Member-at-Large, my mission growth and development of students, in college counseling includes working would be to encourage student members and in support of overall retention rates at two public four-year institutions, to engage fully within ACCA through at colleges and universities. I continue advising at a community college, and attending conferences, presenting, to keep current in the field of counseling working in other Student Affairs settings, college students, and membership in such as in Student Activities and Career writing articles for the newsletter, posting leading professional associations is a Services. In the past two years I have been questions on the listserv, and networking critical part of that mission. Of more the recipient of two ACCA Emerging with more seasoned professionals. I importance is for professionals in our Leader Awards, which have given me promise to also work as a liaison, bridging field to assume leadership positions the opportunity to become familiar the gap between student members and and carry forward a set of goals for our with the many goals and activities of the Executive Council to ensure that association. I have participated at the ACCA. I am a member of ACA and graduate students have a voice within state, regional, and national level to three other divisions, and I am very the association. Through this position, add expertise in planning and carrying active in attending and presenting at I would have the added personal benefit out these goals. My recent experience conferences at the regional, national, and of advocating for student members as secretary for ACCA with a seasoned international levels. I am also involved while interacting regularly with ACCA’s executive council exposed me to the with my university’s Chi Sigma Iota passionate and dynamic leadership.
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 79 Yesim Saatci believe in networking and embracing with ACCA includes being a part of diversity. I grew up in a democratic family the community college taskforce since Professional background culture, in which nobody looked down its inception, and most recently as part and experience upon others for any reason but as a child of the graduate student committee. I Doctoral Candidate, Texas A&M I was taught to consider everyone as my have served on the Iowa Mental Health University-Commerce, Commerce, TX. equals regardless of their socioeconomic Counseling Association’s board as a Education: B.A., Counseling Psychology, status, education, race, etc. When I was student representative, member at large 1992, Bosphorus University; M.Ed., appointed as Texas College Counseling and most recently as the chair of the Counselor Ed., 2004, University of Association Emerging Leader, one of ethics committee. I have also served New Orleans; Ph.D.-ABD., Texas A&M my goals of getting involved at the in leadership roles in my local chapter University-Commerce. Certification: local level was accomplished. Now, of Chi Sigma Iota during my Master’s LPC-Intern, NCC. ACA Branch, if I will be able to get involved at the degree. I have had the distinct honor Division and Affiliate membership national level through ACCA to reach of presenting at ACA in Detroit and and other memberships: ACA, ACCA, the college counselors another goal of Charlotte, and was chosen as an emerging AACE & ASGW; TCA & TCCA, active mine would be to attract the attention leader through ACCA for the ACA member. Leadership Roles: Professional of the graduate student members of conference in Pittsburgh. I most recently experiences include school counselor, ACA and bring them together and presented at ACCA in St. Louis. I have college counselor, graduate teaching connected under the umbrella of ACCA. also had the opportunity to present at assistant and supervisor roles. 2004-2005, I believe also in power of groups, so in the state level at the IAMFT/IMHCA elected Member-at-large, CSI-Alpha Eta teamwork, social connectedness, and conference. Chapter of UNO. 2007, served at booth acceptance. As professional counselors, Qualifications and reasons of ACCA at ACA Conference, Detroit, I suppose, we hate any form of abuse Michigan. 2007-2008. TCA By-laws for seeking office and imposing our own values onto I first joined the American College committee member. 2009. TCA, First others; therefore my value system is Timers’ Committee, member, Dallas, Counseling Association in 2006 when based on the basic respect, autonomy, I was working toward my master’s TX. 2009-2010. TCCA Emerging voluntariness, justice, hard work and Leader. 2009-2011. ASGW membership degree. Since that time, I have found leadership through these qualities. My ACCA to be an invaluable resource, as committee, member. 2010-2011, goal is to bring not only the graduate ASGW, International Committee, Co- the organization has provided essential students but also the college counselors opportunities for my personal growth chair. Awards & Honors: 2006-2007, together and forward to discuss their Joseph Yarbrough Scholarship & plaque. and development as a counselor. My needs and resolve their issues as a whole experiences with ACCA, coupled with Publications and presentations: Panel and united. Consequently, I plan to bring member. “Multicultural Issues,” LSU, my working environment, have been more membership. Currently, I am an the foundation for my commitment to 2004. Lead Presenter. “Factors leading active member of ASGW membership to depression in college students,” LCA college counseling, in areas of both service committee and cochair of ASGW and scholarship. My working experience Conference, 2004. Copresenter: “Stress International Group Work committee. Management,” UNO Counseling thus far has all taken place in college These responsibilities already required counseling centers, ranging from my Services, 2003; “Helping doctoral networking, commitment, and dedication students develop their conceptual map early experiences in my master’s program from me. I am ready to provide my best at a mid-sized University counseling to teaching skills pedagogy,” LCA service to ACCA activities and support Conference, 2003; “Truthiness 2009!”, center to my current position as the sole other existing ACCA committees and counselor in a small community college, AACE Conference, 2009; “Planning leadership. pro bono groups for women addicted where I have been employed for almost to drugs” ASGW Biennial Conference, four years. Research interests during 2010. Community Service: Helping Tracie Self my doctoral study include community Hurricane Katrina victims displaced in college counseling and college counseling Professional background centers in rural areas. I see service to Dallas, TX; Nexus Recovery Center, and experience ACCA as a paramount component of my addicted women; Non-traditional high- I received my Master’s degree in continuing development as a counselor. school, Garland ISD. Mental Health Counseling from the This organization has personally Qualifications and reasons University of Northern Iowa, and benefited me in so many ways through for seeking office am currently working on a Ph.D. in consultation and the opportunity to learn It would be an honor when I will be Counselor Education and Supervision more about the field, that I feel drawn to elected as a “Graduate Student Member- through the University of Iowa. I have give back through service to ACCA. If I at-large” of ACCA Executive Council. received the NCC credential and have am elected to this position, I would like As a doctoral candidate, I am known recently completed the requirements to improve communication and services as inclusive of others, fair, caring, and for the LMHC credential in the state of to the graduate student population consistent when it comes to advocacy Iowa and am awaiting the ruling from within ACCA, particularly in the area issues and the counseling profession. I the licensure board. My involvement of mentorship. Through the years I’ve
80 | Counseling Today | December 2010 been a participant in ACCA, I’ve noted missions. In my humble opinion there the University of Northern Colorado and many graduate students have questions are far too few Counselors and Educators served as a Youth Counselor in various about how to obtain positions in college within the Federal Government that are levels of residential treatment facilities in counseling centers, and I would like members of ACA and many are unaware Nebraska. He has been a member of Chi to see ACCA develop a formal referral of the benefits of membership. In order Sigma Iota Honor Society since 2006 and service for students as well as a career to advocate on behalf of the population is a lifetime member of Psi Chi National center at upcoming conferences. groups we serve we need a strong Honor Society where he previously served collective voice and a solid platform to as an Officer, in charge of the Chapter’s Association for raise the important issues while at the website. Counselors and same time draw upon the knowledge Educators in and experience of the membership to Qualifications and reasons Government ensure all are in sync with the larger for seeking office objective. There are many of us within David is a veteran with 10 years of President-Elect the Federal Government that are LPCs, active duty service in the Air Force and MFTs, LMHC that have all benefited five years with the Air National Guard from the inclusion of our profession and Reserves. Having worked in the Andree’ M. Sutton within the Department of VA and the mental health field since 2001 and in the Professional background Federal Government. We need now Government with the Department of and experience more than ever an organization that will Veterans Affairs and the Department of Currently I am a Licensed Professional ensure we continue to move forward the Air Force since 2005, he has worked Counselor (NJ) and a National Certified and be recognized for the hard work with many veterans, active duty service Counselor. My education credentials and professional experience we bring to members, and their families focusing on include a Post Graduate Degree in table ACEG is that organization within PTSD issues, marital conflict, and suicide Marriage and Family Therapy, a Masters ACA. I would be honored to continue to prevention and education. David’s reason in Community Agency Counselor and serve in any capacity within the ACEG to be elected into a Director position Masters in Education specializing in organization but I believe I might be of with the Association for Counselors Instruction Education. I retired from best service in the leadership realm. and Educators in Government is to the U.S. Air Force at the rank of Chief continue to enhance our acceptance and Master Sgt. I specialize in providing a status within our respective government variety of counseling services to Veterans. Director agencies, and assure that counseling and My employment history as a Counseling education programs for our clients be of the highest professional caliber. He hopes professional include working at a Vet David R. Brinkworth Center as a Readjustment Counseling to continue to break down the stigma of Intern, a Vocational Rehabilitation Professional background seeking help among service members and Counselor and as a Regional Veterans and experience work on educating those in the private Employment Coordinator providing David was appointed by his peers to sector of our profession, of the diverse Career Counseling Services and advocacy fill a Director position in the Association culture and needs of service members and assistance to Severely Injured Veterans. I for Counselors and Educators in their families. With today’s military being am also a member of Chi Sigma Iota and Government (ACEG) in April 2010. stretched to its limits and the demand have presented at ACA on the subject of He has been a member of ACEG, the that this places on the service member Counseling Combat Veterans. International Association of Marriage and their families, there is only going to and Family Therapists, and the be an increase in needs by this unique Qualifications and reasons American Counseling Association since for seeking office community. Currently there is a stigma 2003. After 10 years of active military among service members about seeking My rationale and reasoning for seeking service, he completed a Masters of help when in need on active duty. As the office of President of ACEG is Arts in Community Counseling with professionals, it is our job to work toward to provide a greater platform within an emphasis in Marriage and Family eliminating this stigma. Meanwhile, most the Government Community and in Therapy and worked as a Therapist at the particular within the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic and government agencies are working with Veteran Affairs on issues facing counselors Northern Colorado Behavioral Health fewer resources each year, but we will and educators within the Government in Greeley, Colorado. He then accepted eventually be overwhelmed when those Service. These issues include advocating a position as a Community Readiness service members, or veterans, do seek for greater Continuing Education Consultant with the Department of the help. David feels that we can be more support and support for membership Air Force. Since then he has worked proactive with our services, whether and attendance at ACA national in the Airman & Family Readiness in the counseling or educational field, conferences as forums to enhance their Centers at Beale AFB, California and by continuing to develop a network of professional credentials and expand their now, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota. professionals and sharing our experience knowledge base. My strategic goal is to David has past experience as a Career and training with other professionals and raise awareness of the ACEG and ACA Counselor and Internship Coordinator at those that will eventually replace us.
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 81 Laura Reed Goodson with ACEG in the past two years and throughout the Department of Defense enjoyed being a part of the growth and in order to cut the budget deficits Professional background renewed interest in our division. The face during one presidential administration. and experience of ACEG has changed over the years and In another presidential administration, I am a Master’s Degree in Counseling with a large part of our membership now ACEG has seen the Army professional Graduate student at the University of composed of graduate students, I am counseling and education staff, the last North Carolina at Charlotte with a special eager to help move our division toward civil service holdouts in numbers, being interest in working with combat trauma, more diverse and inclusive programming reduced by half, only to be replaced by complex trauma, and addiction. Though that will enrich our future opportunities. more contract staff, including contract I am not a veteran, I come from a military counselors. In the early 1970s, the House family and have led writing workshops for of Representatives’ Report No. 93-662 veterans for the past 20 years. Miles T. Sakaguchi directed the Army to discontinue the Qualifications and reasons Professional background practice of hiring contract education for seeking office and experience counselors and stated that counseling I honor both the education and Certification and Licensure: NCC// positions should be civil service. This was mental health counseling sides of our Education: M.Ed., University of Hawaii, largely due to problems and concerns in organization and would like to continue M.Ed., University of San Diego, B.Ed., the 1960s and early 1970s. Obviously, to represent graduate students from University of Hawaii//Recent Professional not everyone in the Department of both areas as a Director for ACEG. Now Experience: Education Services Specialist Defense are students of history or of more than ever, ACEG needs to reach supporting a small counseling staff at lessons learned, as a result the same out to students and new counselors to Schofield Barracks Geographic Education problems and issues that were concerns encourage them to consider getting more Center. Assist students with college before will impact our Soldiers again training and education that will allow issues, to include tuition assistance, and will take an equally strong resolve them to meet the needs of military service academic, personal & career issues both by counseling professionals within members and their families. ACEG also on site and in geographically separated government service to overcome. ACEG needs to continue to coordinate with areas//Association experience: ACEG needs to be at the forefront in seeking to other divisions of ACA to encourage the (Past President), Hawaii Counseling put more qualified and quality counseling VA and Vet centers to welcome LPCs Association (Treasurer - 3 years), professionals in government service. as well as professionals with an MSW Hawaii Association for Counselors and degree. Educators in Government (President, Vice-President, Secretary)//Presentations: Angie Waliski ACEG Professional Development Jennifer Kim Professional background Institute, Atlanta, Georgia 2005// and experience Professional background Community Service: Combined Federal I am currently a Polytrauma Post and experience Campaign action officer for the Army Doctoral Fellow for the Central Arkansas I have a master’s degree in Counseling in Hawaii (two years), Combined Veterans Healthcare System and an & Personnel Services and am a National Federal Campaign action officer for the instructor for the University of Arkansas Certified Counselor. I’ve worked for Directorate of Community Activities, for Medical Sciences. I received a PhD the federal government as an Education US Army Garrison, Hawaii (one year), from the University of Arkansas at Services Specialist for the past seven years. Combined Federal Campaign action Fayetteville in 2001. I am a past president I’ve been a member of ACA and ACEG officer for the Education Services of the Arkansas Counseling Association as well as various other divisions for over Division (one year)// (ArCA) and continue to stay active in the 10 years. I am currently serving as an Qualifications and reasons organization. I received the 2008 ACA appointed Director for ACEG. Currently, for seeking office Robert Renken Emerging Professional I am also the Associate Editor for the Having been associated with Leader Award and lead several ArCA Government Section of the National government service for over 30 years projects that have gained recognition Career Development Association’s web and the Association for Counselors from ACA and our region. My past magazine, Career Convergence. and Educators in Government (and experience has included working with Qualifications and reasons its predecessor, Military Educators & children and family in therapeutic for seeking office Counselors Association) for just as long, I treatment programs, substance abuse With seven years experience working have learned that what we can accomplish programs, head start programs, and as an education and career counselor for as a group is far more effective than trying in public schools. I am currently the federal government, I bring a strong to resolve issues by ourselves. I realize that working toward the development and background and valuable perspective we as an association have evolved, we are implementation of a school based to ACEG. I’ve worked in various smaller, more diverse, but certainly still prevention intervention for military settings and roles and have a broad viable, as long as those who care want it children and families experiencing view of counselors and educators in the to remain so. ACEG has seen the gutting combat related deployment. government. I have become more active of the professional counseling staffs
82 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Qualifications and reasons Rights Committee, being President of the provide services that are meaningful for seeking office Idaho Counseling Association, serving as to our members as they evolve and As an active member of the Arkansas an editorial board member for Counselor encounter different experiences, so I Counseling Association (ArCA) I have Education and Supervision and Journal am committed to understanding the had a decade of experience working with of Counseling and Development, being needs and perspectives of members leaders in our profession. As president Communications Officer for CSJ, serving and other counselor educators and I learned to represent counselors with as a CACREP site team member, and supervisors. I have greatly benefited from various expertise and responsibilities. I cofounding ACES’ New Faculty Interest all the mentoring I received and all the am currently a Polytrauma Post Doctoral Network. I have an active publication leadership opportunities I have had. I Fellow for the Veterans Healthcare and presentation agenda that focuses strongly believe that a legacy of service, System. I received this fellowship after on counselor development, wellness, advocacy, and leadership is a cornerstone explaining how counselors and our supervision, mentoring, and leadership. of ACES’ vision as we collectively identity professional organizations can collaborate I received the “Publication in Counselor specific strategies for manifesting these with the VA in identifying and assisting Education and Supervision Award” from principles. I appreciate your consideration Operation Enduring and Iraqi Freedom ACES in 2009. I believe that leadership of my nomination. Veterans and their families. As licensed is also necessary at the community level, professional counselors are beginning so I volunteer my time by sitting on the to see acceptance in the VA and as the Board of Directors for the Bannock Youth Christopher P. Roseman VA is beginning to build programs that Foundation. Professional background assist family members of the veteran, it Qualifications and reasons and experience is important to advocate for counselors for seeking office I received my Ph.D. in Counselor Edu- and the prevention and treatment services ACES embodies the principles of cation from The University of Toledo in we can provide. A goal for my future is leadership, advocacy, and stewardship, August 2006. I am an Assistant Profes- to continue to create awareness of the so I am delighted and honored to be sor at the University of South Dakota counseling profession and our various nominated for ACES President. As a and serve as Coordinator of the Clinical areas of expertise. I see the value of leader at state and regional levels, I am Mental Health and Substance Abuse Pro- counselors and educators in government. personally and professionally impacted by grams. I hold licensure as a Professional I feel that I am an advocate for how counselor educators and supervisors Counselor in the State of Ohio and am prevention counselors and mental health shape the direction of the profession. a Nationally Certified Counselor. I have counselors. I look forward to using my My goals as ACES President would be been a certified instructor in Nonviolent expertise to serving our members. to develop ongoing plans for ACES Crisis Intervention for the Crisis Preven- to be responsive to the needs of its tion Institute, Inc. since 2002. My work constituents, identify ways to strengthen experience as a professional counselor is Association for our leadership in the realm of scholarship, in various settings such as clinical mental Counselor Education build collaborative partnerships with health and substance abuse agencies, cor- and Supervision other divisions and ACA, and continue rectional facilities, and the Department to create a legacy of leadership that is of Job and Family Services in Ohio as an Eligibility Specialist and Children’s Ser- President-Elect proactive, inclusive, and innovative. vices Worker. I am the Executive Director Responsiveness to ACES constituents for the South Dakota Counseling Asso- includes members and their needs, and Nicole R. Hill ciation after serving two years as SDCA it also includes counselor education President. I currently serve as the NCAC- Professional background programs across the world. Higher ES President, ACA Midwest Region and experience education is experiencing tremendous Chair-elect, and Co-Chair of the ACA I am a professor in the Department of financial pressure which impacts our Branch Development Committee. I also Counseling at Idaho State University, and ability to provide counselor preparation serve as a board member of the ACAIT. I am licensed as a professional counselor training in the most meaningful ways. I have been honored to receive the 2010 in Idaho and Ohio. I completed my Creating discussions of how we can help American Counseling Association Robert M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio transform higher education, and thus, Rencken Emerging Professional Leader- University with a focus on Community protect the integrity of counselor training ship Award and the 2006 Association for Agency/Rehabilitation Counseling and programs is paramount. ACES can be Counselor Education and Supervision Counselor Education, respectively. I an advocate as our colleagues encounter Outstanding Graduate Leadership. am a member of ACA, multiple ACA demands that compromise the integrity divisions, and Chi Sigma Iota, and I have of training. Building collaborative Qualifications and reasons been committed to active involvement in relationships with other professional for seeking office leadership roles. I am serving as Secretary associations helps position ACES to be The Association for Counselor of CSI and President of Rocky Mountain informed, active, and engaged in efforts Education and Supervision is a key ACES. Other professional service to enhance all aspects of the counseling leader in the advancement of our includes co-chairing ACA’s Human profession. We also must continue to discipline, therefore responsible to assess
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 83 and act upon the current needs of the award for my dissertation from NAWE Jennifer L. Murdock clients in which we serve. This must be (National Association of Women in Professional background accomplished through extraordinary Education). I have been a National and experience research, curriculum development, and Certified Counselor since 1988, and I am currently an Assistant Professor supervision. Additionally, ACES must became a member of ACA in the 1980s. of Counselor Education and Supervision continue to strive to unite and strengthen I am licensed in Virginia and New York at the University of Northern Colorado our profession through their work in as a counselor. Prior to my work as a (UNC) with primary teaching Social Justice, Professional Advocacy, and faculty member, I worked in student responsibilities in professional identity the Accreditation Process. The members affairs in the areas of residence life, and orientation, career counseling and of ACES deserve the training, resources, student activities, academic advising and career theory, and counseling skills and networking opportunities to ensure career services. I also had a small private courses for our master’s students as well that the high standards we, as professional practice in Virginia. I became a member as professional development, leadership, counselors, aspire to achieve and embody of ACES when I began my career as a advocacy, and advanced career courses are met. Professional Counselors face college professor in the mid-1990s I for our doctoral students. I completed constant challenges and changes; this have presented at over 40 conferences a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and will never cease. In a profession where internationally, nationally and regionally Supervision from the University of our client’s needs are ever-changing, so, in my career. I have published articles Wyoming and I am a National Certified too, will change how we train counselors, related to multicultural issues in a variety Counselor, a Licensed Professional how we research new interventions, of journals. I have also received the and how we best practice professional Counselor and Licensed School Thomas A. Manion award for teaching Counselor in the State of Colorado. counseling. There will be continuous at The College of Saint Rose where I am legislative issues in which it is the duty Additionally, I am a member of ACA, currently a Professor in the Counseling ACES, NCDA, ASCA, the Colorado of ACES to be aware of and act upon. and College Student Services programs. ACES is so vital; it provides the voice, Counseling Association, the Colorado While at The College of Saint Rose I School Counseling Association, and the forum, and the ideas of counselors, also served as Department Chair of the supervisors, and educators everywhere to Chi Sigma Iota. I currently serve as Counseling and Educational Leadership chapter co-faculty adviser for our CSI understand, grow, and take ownership of programs where I shepherded our this profession we dearly love and cherish. Rho Epsilon Chapter at UNC. I was programs through our initial NCATE also a corecipient of an ACES Research ACES has had phenomenal leadership; it process. continues to foster an environment which Grant from the ACES Research Grant encourages and mentors its future leaders. Qualifications and reasons Committee in 2008. Through strong, positive leadership and for seeking office Qualifications and reasons membership, ACES embodies a synergy I have served as President-Elect of NY- for seeking office that is contagious and appeals to students, ACES, President of NYACES and past If elected, I am enthusiastically counselors, supervisors, and educators. President of NYACES (a six year com- prepared to assume the position of My goal is to continue and advance the mitment), and secretary of NARACES. I Secretary to serve ACES members. ACES agenda whereby it is a role model have served as the secretary for National Using my strong organizational skills, for other professional organizations. This Association of Women in Education ability to manage multiple tasks, is accomplished through; a) providing (NAWE) and held several offices while in communicate effectively, and collaborate resources and development for its membership before the organization fold- as a contributing team member I can members, b) promoting the “brand” of ed this included being one of the found- assist the Executive Council to support ACES through technology, publications, ing members of the Lesbian/Bisexual the mission of ACES and facilitate and networking opportunities, and c) Caucus. I have always found that serving smooth management of association mentoring students, advocating for as a volunteer in the organizations that responsibilities. In line with ACES bylaws clients and professional counselors, and I belong to an honor. The opportunity (Revised April 2006) I will provide careful leading in a responsible and honorable to contribute to my profession over the management for all records of the current fashion. years has been important to me and as an activities of the Association, the Executive unexpected end result I have met won- Council, and Executive Committee derful people while networking. I have through organized and clear documents Secretary found in the past in my role as secretary, and by devoting more than adequate time a way to support the mission and goals of to this position. I will become familiar the organizations that I belong to. It has Jelane A. Kennedy with all responsibilities of the office and also been a way to help keep a historical establish an effective working relationship Professional background record that many times has proven valu- with members of the Executive Council and experience able as we continue to grow and develop and Executive Committees. Additionally, I graduated from The College of as a profession. It would be an honor to I am prepared to spend further time and William and Mary with my doctorate. continue that tradition and to use my energy to perform other duties deemed I received the Ruth Strang research organization skills in a positive way. helpful or as assigned by the membership,
84 | Counseling Today | December 2010 the President, or other members of the where I also worked in community will join me in bringing better services Executive Council. mental health agencies and inpatient and more pronounced social justice care. I currently am in the internship activism to counseling. phase of my doctoral degree in counselor Jean Underfer-Babalis education at Kent State University Professional background specializing in LGBTQIQA/diversity Board Trustee and experience issues in counseling. While in Ohio I have been active at the state and national Professional Clinical Counselor (22 Brandon Harper years) with Supervision Designation level for ALGBTIC. I was part of (13 years); ABD, Past Midwest Region cocreating an Ohio chapter of ALGBTIC Professional background Chairperson (involved in National ACA while serving as its President. On the and experience Leadership for 10 years), Past President national level I cochair the taskforce to My background experience is of: Ohio Counseling Association update the LGBQIQA competencies personal as well as professional. I (Leadership roles for 15 years), and the state branch committee. I also am a transgender gay man, and I am OACES, NWOCA, OASGW (2x). present and teach on various counseling due to obtain my Masters degree in Recipient of the Susan Sears Counselor issues including LGBTQIQA issues in Professional Counseling at Carlow of the year Award 2005 and OACES counseling on the local, state and national University of Pittsburgh in December Doctoral Student of the Year 2006. Has level through conference presentations 2010. I coauthored the Competencies for volunteered in my community and have and workshops. I have presided as Counseling Transgender Clients with the had leadership roles in social advocacy in President and Treasurer of Chi Sigma Iota Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, during my graduate career and continue my community for the past 30 years. and Transgender Issues in Counseling to develop my writing for professional (ALGBTIC)’s Trans Task Force Qualifications and reasons newsletters, journals and periodicals. Committee. I am also on the revision for seeking office Qualifications and reasons committee that is currently revising the I have held national leadership roles for for seeking office LGB competencies. I routinely provide the past 10 years, state leadership roles for LGBT advocacy trainings to various I would like to become President of 15 years, and social advocacy leadership counseling agencies (Family Services of ALGBTIC because I wish to serve the for 30+ years. My goal has always been Western Pennsylvania, Parental Stress needs of counselors, students and the to serve my community and profession Center, Persad Center), counselor- LGBTQIQA community as a whole. in whatever manner is indicated and/ education and other university programs Through education and outreach efforts or needed. As ACES Secretary, my goals (Shippensburg University, Slippery I will lead in bringing LGBTQIQA are to be organized, timely, be active in Rock University, Carlow University, issues to the forefront of the counseling the leadership process, take direction Pittsburgh Medical School, Frostburg profession. I especially wish to recruit from ACES leadership, carry out my State University), counseling conferences more Allies to our organization, both (Pennsylvania Counseling Association, responsibilities with dignity and respect, straight and from the LGBT community, American Counseling Association), and advocate for the needs and direction in order to foster better education and business corporations (BNY Mellon). of ACES, and to do my best at each advocacy efforts as a whole in counseling. I also received the 2010 ALGBTIC moment. In a time when LGBTQIQA issues are Grad Student Award at the last ACA so prevalent in the media and world conference. I completed my practicum alike we need to lead as a profession in experience with the Pittsburgh AIDS Association for providing the best services and advocacy Task Force and my internship with Holy Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual to our communities to foster accepting, Family Social Services, providing in-home and Transgender Issues positive counseling strategies and safe counseling to families in need. I am a in Counseling environments for the LGBTQIQA member of the American Counseling community. As President of ALGBTIC of Association, Pennsylvania Counseling President-Elect Ohio I have assisted in the development Association, their LGBT divisions, of online resources, workshops, legislative and the Greater Pittsburgh Counseling action and advocacy efforts for counselors Pete S. Finnerty Association. and the LGBTQIQA community. I have Professional background served on several important committees Qualifications and reasons and experience for ALGBTIC national to create more for seeking office As a counselor I have worked with positive environments in counseling and My goals should I be elected as the LGBTQIQA community in various on the state levels for the LGBTQIQA ALGBTIC board trustee would be to mental health settings and in various community. I also bring experience in continue the advocacy I already do local, state, and national advocacy LGBTQIQA counseling research to my in educating counselors, counselor- efforts. I received my Bachelor’s in post along with firsthand knowledge of educators, and other related helping Psychology and Master’s in Counseling the toll of anti-gay attitudes through my professions about working with the from California State University Fresno counseling specialty and life. I hope you LGBTQIQA community and expand
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 85 that campaign to reach wider members has contributed to the profession would continue to advocate for this as an of these important professions. It would by presenting at national and local ALGBTIC board trustee. I am looking be my hope to focus on regions where conferences, and publishing articles and forward to contributing to ALGBTIC help and support for this community book chapters on better understanding in whatever capacity I can and will is lacking, and where it would be issues of sexual minorities. His current do my best to represent the interests research interests include same sex most beneficial. An example of this is, of ALGBTIC stakeholders as a board although I am fortunate enough to live parenting, and the development of trustee. in a city where we have a counseling homoprejudicial attitudes. Samuel is an agency that specializes in supporting the active member of Equality Florida. He LGBT community, there are individuals also served as a board member of ALSO Association for who travel 2-4 hours one way to seek OUT Youth (Sarasota county LGBTIQ Multicultural treatment at my local agency because drop in center), provided workshops on Counseling and the next closest supportive agency they diversity issues for health care workers, Development are aware of might be twice as far, if not and provided LGBT psychoeducational farther. So it is my goal to strengthen training for school counselors. President-Elect outreach supportive services and help Qualifications and reasons competent counselors in those regions for seeking office be able to reach out to those individuals Maritza Gallardo-Cooper I have been active in ACA as a board seeking LGBT affirmative care. It is also member of the Bylaws Committee and Professional background my goal to have more LGBT competent cochairing ethics committee. I have and experience counselors and LGBT supportive services also been active in the profession by Maritza Gallardo-Cooper, Ph.D., is available not only to the youth who are serving counselor education programs a marriage and family therapist and victims of bullying in our schools, but as a CACREP site team visitor and school psychologist with over 30 years the adult population too. Affectional serving on the editorial board of orientation and gender identity/ of experience in the public and private Career Development Quarterly. At sector. She completed her bachelor’s expression can evolve or change over the same time, promoting awareness degree at the University of Puerto Rico, time, and not everyone realizes their of the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual master’s degree at the University of identity when they are young, sometimes and transgendered clients has been an the piece of the puzzle is found later in important element of me professional Houston, and doctorate at the University life. It is my goal to assist ALGBTIC and career. Joining the ALGBTIC board of Florida. She directed programs ACA in increasing support in all these of trustees would represent a natural in adolescent residential treatment, areas. progression and would allow me to consultation, school-based day treatment, contribute even more to the American intensive family therapy, and outpatient Samuel Sanabria Counseling Association, the counseling clinics for children and adults. Her profession, and LGBT people. I would practice interests include cross-cultural, Professional background take the opportunity as board trustee bicultural, and bilingual interventions. and experience to encourage research into areas where As a national certified school psychologist Samuel Sanabria is an Assistant there are present and growing needs she specializes in multicultural assessment Professor in the Graduate Counseling for new exploration. As a gay father, and consultation. She presents in Program at Rollins College. He received I am particularly interested in same- his PhD in Counselor Education and sex parenting issues. During my own numerous conferences and training Supervision from the University of research I found that the current body programs on a wide range of topics as Florida in 2002. He currently works with of work could be enhanced to further well as teaches clinical supervision at sexual and ethnic minorities providing develop our understandings of the issues the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala couples and individual counseling. and to help provide effective services graduate program. She was a task Samuel is an active member of the for same-sex couples and families. I am member of the Hispanic Task Force in American Counseling Association (ACA) also interested in furthering research the President’s Commission of Mental having served on committees including into homo-prejudicial attitudes and Health and selected by peers as Clinician the bylaws and ethics committee. He the impact they have on gay, lesbian, of the Year. She served as vice president of served as cochair of the ACA Ethics bisexual, and transgendered young the Latino Concerns network of AMCD Committee. He has been a member of people, especially in light of the spate of and cochaired the ACA task force on several divisions in ACA including the recent suicides among gay youth. I would Latino Family Counseling Competencies. Association for Lesbian, Gay Bisexual like to use collected knowledge in this and Transgendered Issues in Counseling area to develop educational programs She coauthored the book Counseling (ALGBTIC), Counselors for Social to foster the development of positive Latinos and la familia: A practical guide Justice (CSJ), and the Association identities and to combat bullying in with Azara Santiago-Rivera and Patricia for Multicultural Counseling and schools and workplaces. I have worked Arredondo as well as published on Development (AMCD). Samuel toward this pursuit for several years and bilingual counseling.
86 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Qualifications and reasons Tarrell Awe Agahe Portman and reach across boundaries to develop for seeking office partnerships to promote the counseling Professional background As President of AMCD I will profession. These partnerships would and experience contribute from my experiences as a serve to increase AMCD membership, Tarrell Awe Agahe Portman currently seasoned culturally and linguistically facilitate new product development, serves as the VP for Native American committed practitioner and as an avid and enhance the integrity of the Concerns within AMCD. She is an active supporter of multicultural knowledge Journal of Multicultural Counseling member of the AMCD Executive Board and practice. My professional formation and Development. I feel qualified and has served as the AMCD National began at a time when the multicultural to lead AMCD due to my ongoing Awards chair for several years. In 2006, movement was in its infancy and there involvement in the decision-making of Tarrell was selected as the first recipient were no formal organizations or training the organization, my active involvement of the Counselors for Social Justice Mary in other divisions of ACA, and previous to unravel concerns about culturally Smith Arnold Anti-Oppression Award. competent methods. As a practitioner, national leadership experience. I She was elected by The University of truly believe in building consensus I am keenly aware of the challenges Iowa Faculty Senate to serve on the when translating theory and research in organizations. My underlying Charter Committee for Diversity and value system upholds serving through into practice, navigating though the currently holds a 40% appointment in obstacles of resistance, pursuing culturally leadership. AMCD provides members the Graduate College as the Director of with a wonderful opportunity to make appropriate methods, and reflecting upon the OGEI serving graduate students from cultural counseling adaptations. My a difference in the counseling profession underrepresented backgrounds across 100+ and the world. goals, therefore, focus on the application programs. Tarrell is a national Holmes of multicultural theory and research Partnership Scholar Alum and served to ongoing professional development on the National Association of Holmes Vice President for Native and to have availability of multicultural Scholar Alumni Board of Directors. She resources to various community groups. was honored as a National Indian Fellow American Concerns All of these groups are potential partners/ through the United States Department of collaborators. I will endorse programs for Education. Her dissertation was included Lisa Grayshield students and counselors to learn through in the National Museum of the American No information received cultural exchanges and mentorship, Indian at the Smithsonian Institute. She language immersion experiences, and has contributed 62 publications and 131 collaboration with other ACA divisions, presentations to the counseling profession. AMCD Western Region organizations, and institutions. I will also Tarrell Portman holds professional Representative concentrate on increasing participation licenses as a K-12 school counselor, school in national advocacy initiatives and psychological examiner, licensed mental public exposure to multicultural issues health counselor, and teacher. She is an Sharon L. Bowles (e.g., continued expansion of the alumnus of Southeast Missouri State Professional background University (BA, MA) and The University AMCD website, including scholarly and experience of Arkansas-Fayetteville (PhD). reports for professionals and the general Professional background/experience: public). I strongly believe that AMCD Qualifications and reasons • A 34 year veteran math teacher and must meet the needs of the educator, for seeking office school counselor (retired). • School researcher, and practitioner. We need to Building a community of inclusiveness Counseling Consultant/Volunteer. • tap on the vast number of counseling and understanding is my primary Instructor in the Counseling Department practitioners, increase membership, lead goal for serving AMCD. Early in my of SFSU for six years; currently teaching in the development of standards for academic career I felt embraced by the Multicultural Counseling courses. • bilingual competencies, and establish a AMCD family. It has been my good Approved Online Instructor/Developer professional certification for multicultural fortune to have known many AMCD of Lay Counseling Ministry courses for counseling and supervision. We need leaders who have stood as giants in our Fresno Pacific University Professional to face current socio-political-economic profession. These leaders touched my Development Department. Leadership realities of client groups together with life by teaching me how to observe and Positions: • Served 21 years as Head conviction, consider new resources, listen to the multicultural needs of others. Counselor. • Served three years on the and develop actionable strategies. The I watched them lead in difficult times, Selection Committee for the National richness of our division relies on a vibrant witnessed their commitment to AMCD Merit Scholarship Corporation. • Served and diverse membership with shared members and future professionals, and eight years on the Grant Advisory goals and complementary interests. I will shared in their joys of changing the Committee (GAC) of the California be enthusiastic and committed to reach nature of counseling through creation Student Aid Commission; GAC Vice- all members, create teams of action, and of the multicultural competencies. My Chair/Parliamentarian. • Inducted into expand the role of the organization to goal as AMCD President would be to Stanford University H. B. McDaniel stimulate a progressive division. continue the vision of these leaders Hall of Fame in 2008. • Contributing
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 87 writer of the original publication of American Rehabilitation ability as a professional organization to the High School Success Guide in Counseling Association make a difference in the lives of people Oakland, CA. • California Counseling with disabilities has grown. We have Association: President; Regional Director; President-Elect become a more collaborative, flexible, responsive, and inclusive organization. Corporate Secretary. • California School We have provided local and national Counselor Association: President; Joseph E. Keferl leadership around political issues, legisla- Northern Regional Director. • California Professional background tion, and leadership appointments. We Association of Religious Values in and experience have joined with our rehab brethren from Counseling: President. • Member of Joseph E. Keferl, Rh.D., CRC is an other organizations to move forward on California Association for Multicultural Associate Professor and Coordinator of licensure issues, defining research agen- Counseling; Career Counselors; CCA the CORE accredited Graduate Rehabili- das, and promoting ethical competent practice. Our work continues. If elected Black Caucus. • ACA Western Region: tation Counseling Programs at Wright to the Board, I would work to continue Chair, Treasurer. • Member of ACA, State University. Prior to coming to WSU nurturing our existing collaborative AMCD, ASCA, ASERVIC, NECA. • in 2001, he taught at California State University-Fresno, and Southern Illinois relationships and seek to develop new Sorority: OEBAC of Delta Sigma Theta, University at Carbondale. He has pre- and stronger connections with other or- Inc: Parliamentarian/Scholarship Chair. sented at over 60 professional conferences ganizations, institutions, and disability stakeholders. I would push the Board to • Church: Trustee, Choir Director. • at local, state, and national levels, and has offer more opportunities for members to Member: Neighborhood Community published numerous articles, curriculum voice their feedback, share their wisdom Council. and training materials, and book chap- and expertise, and be active participants ters. He has professional experience as a Qualifications and reasons of their ARCA. I would support efforts rehabilitation counselor, case manager, to generate and nurture our future lead- for seeking office outcomes manager, and mental health/ ers — both from inside ARCA and those Several years ago, I received the AOD therapist. In leadership roles, he is who haven’t found ARCA yet. Finally, I following message from a fortune past President of the National Rehabili- would work to improve our communica- cookie: “You never hesitate to tackle tation Counseling Association, current tions, connections, and positioning with- Chair of the Research and Knowledge the most difficult problems.” The in our field, and to enhance our visibility Council for the American Rehabilitation nature of a Professional Counselor lends and relevancy — not just for ARCA, but Counseling Association, past President itself to tackling difficult problems for our collective profession. Ultimately, of the Ohio Rehabilitation Counseling and finding solutions. I understand I humbly ask for your endorsement to Association, President-elect of the Ohio the position of President-Elect so that I the word commitment and what it Rehabilitation Association, advisory can continue working for you — for it is represents. Multicultural counseling Board member for the Center for Inter- through the hard work, professionalism and development from diverse cultures ventions, Treatment and Research in the and dedication of our ARCA members WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine is essential to our personal growth as that lives are changed. well as to our societal growth. Exposure and past Chair of the Mental Health and to differences will enhance our cross- Recovery Board of Clark, Greene, and Madison Counties. He is an editorial cultural knowledge base. Though Treasurer reviewer for the Journal of Applied Reha- the road ahead could be bumpy, our bilitation Counseling and has served as a convictions, determination and faith CARF surveyor in the Employment and Cherie King in the power of the good we do daily Community Services Division for over 12 will help smooth the path that we must years. Professional background travel to achieve our goals. Entrusting and experience Qualifications and reasons Cherie King has been a Rehabilitation me to serve as your ACA Western Region for seeking office Consultant and Counselor for over 25 AMCD Representative would indeed I would be honored to serve in the years in various settings including, mental be a privilege. If given this honor, I will capacity of ARCA President-Elect. Dur- health community-based treatment, endeavor to work diligently to promote ing my years with ARCA as Chair of the vocational rehabilitation, disability the ideals and goals of AMCD. It is Research and Knowledge Council, we management, private rehabilitation, and my hope to assist the organization in have faced new challenges and experi- training. Before teaching full time, she forward progress but always remembering enced significant successes. The struggling taught as an adjunct for Assumption economy of our nation has contributed College and CCSU and Teaching the efforts of the many members who to significant membership stress which Fellow for Boston University. She is the sacrificed so much over the years to make has threatened the stability and potency Chair of the Commission on Standards AMCD what it is today. Let us celebrate of our profession through funding cuts, and Accreditation for the Council on our existence and renew our faith in the shrinking resources, and an upheaval Rehabilitation Education (CORE). She expectations of a bright future. of political priorities. Despite this, our is a Commissioner for the Commission
88 | Counseling Today | December 2010 on Disability Management Specialists Also, I am active member of American NCC, CCMHC is currently an Certification (CDMSC) and is Chair of Counseling Association and National Assistant Professor with the Center CDMSC’s Examination and Research Council on Rehabilitation Education. for Psychological Studies at Nova Committee. Dr. King maintains a private Southeastern University. She received her Qualifications and reasons practice focused on rehabilitation, doctorate from the University of Central for seeking office disability management, and forensic Florida in 2004. She has extensive I have served on the ARCA Executive consulting services. She is a past member clinical mental health experience and is Council since 2006, and have been of the National Board of Directors a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in a member of the organization since of The International Association of the State of Florida as well as a National 2003. I am extremely honored to be Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) Certified Counselor and a Clinically nominated again to chair the Public and Past President of the New England Certified Mental Health Counselor. Relations and Awareness Council and IARP Chapter. Her research and Shannon is the clinical coordinator for look forward to facilitating membership teaching interests are clinical supervision NSU’s field-based counselor education and public relations mechanisms. During of counselors, distance education, placements throughout Florida and has my term, I plan to engender a sense of rehabilitation counselor competencies presented and published on a wide variety participation and collaboration among and standards of practice, vocational of topics including spiritual issues in members and encourage membership rehabilitation, private rehabilitation, and counseling, eating disorders, domestic from those professionals who have disability management. violence, clinical training, and children chosen not to join ARCA. Also, I will raised by grandparents. She is currently Qualifications and reasons make enhancing the visibility of ARCA serving her second term on the ASERVIC for seeking office a primary duty by showcasing the Board of Directors and also serves as My goal as Treasurer of ARCA is to organization at national conferences and chair of the Awards Committee, cochair provide fiscal accuracy and responsibility local/state events, developing brochures to the position. These are difficult and newsletters, and networking with of the Membership Committee, and times for professional associations and professionals in the field. Furthermore, she cochaired ASERVIC’s August 2010 their members. Hard decisions must be in effort to increase student visibility, I National Conference. Shannon is also made regarding how to provide quality will continue to collaboratively work with active with ACES and chairs the long membership service and benefits within the Student Task Force Representative range planning committee for Southern a budget. I have been a part of several (Dr. Quiteya Walker) to promote ACES. professional organizations’ Board of student mentoring, involvement, and Qualifications and reasons Directors and have faced the challenges recognition. On a final note, I will aim for seeking office of “saving” an organization from financial to publicly identify members who have It is an honor for me to be a candidate collapse in these difficult times. With made outstanding contributions to the for President-Elect of ASERVIC, focus on the bottom-line, I will bring association or profession by recognition, and I believe wholeheartedly in the a perspective to the Treasurer’s role by including but not limited to, presenting mission of the organization with its focusing on what is in the best long-term awards at national conferences and overarching goal of infusing spiritual interest of organization and its members. acknowledgments in newsletters and/or competencies and ethical practice on the ARCA website. Being an active throughout the counseling profession. Council on Public Relations and engaged member of ARCA has been During my two terms on the Board of and Awareness one of the most fulfilling parts of my Directors, I have seen the development, professional life; I would welcome the adoption, and ACA endorsement of opportunity to extend this commitment ASERVIC’s spiritual competencies. If Nykeisha Moore as one of your leaders of the ARCA elected, my goals would be to continue Professional background Executive Council and strive to work to integrate spirituality throughout and experience hard for changes that reflect the needs counselor education curricula with a I am a vocational rehabilitation and desires of all members. distinct understanding of and respect counselor for the Department of for myriad religious delineations. I Veterans Affairs in Connecticut since believe it is important to maintain focus 2009. I have a doctoral degree in Association for Spiritual, on the ongoing importance of ethical Rehabilitation Counselor Education Ethical and Religious values throughout counselor training, from the University of Iowa, a master’s Values in Counseling practice, and supervision and to provide degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from ongoing professional development to South Carolina State University, and a President-Elect members and all interested counseling bachelor’s degree in Child Development professionals. One key way to implement from Claflin University. I have served Shannon Ray this objective is through organization of as the student task force representative ASERVIC’s biannual national conference of the ARCA board beginning in 2006, Professional background and the continued offering of spiritual and currently as Chair of the Council and experience renewal and invigoration through the on Public Relations and Awareness. Shannon Ray, Ph.D., LMHC, biannual spiritual journey. Finally, an
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 89 important goal remains to maintain and were in attendance, I worked with school, counseling clients with dual support the high quality of the ASERVIC leadership to raise student awareness. diagnosis and in crisis settings, teaching journal Counseling and Values as well as Since that time the Student Roundtable masters and doctoral students at Argosy, to continually enhance member services. has grown substantially — so DC, and serving as the program chair It would be incredibly meaningful substantially that feedback from the 2009 at that university for the past two for me to be able to serve ASERVIC meeting was presented in Counseling years. While at Argosy, DC, I designed in this capacity, and I would take the Today. I have also had the privilege of and taught a course called Integrating responsibility to heart, mind, and spirit. participating in numerous committees Spirituality into Counseling for masters for ASERVIC; including the ASERVIC and doctoral students to assist them in Conference Committee, the ASERVIC meeting client needs. I have a license to Board Member National Conference Committee, and practice in North Carolina, an Approved serving as the coeditor for ASERVIC’s Clinical Supervisor credential, and a quarterly newsletter. Recent publications National Counselor Certification. I Stephanie F. Dailey include a chapter, Assessing the Religious received my PhD in Counselor Education Professional background and Spiritual Domains, in Cashwell and from the University of North Carolina at and experience Young’s second edition of Integrating Greensboro and my research, including I am a licensed professional counselor religion and spirituality in counseling: my dissertation, has focused on spiritual, and hold NCC and ACS credentials. I am A guide to competent practice (in religion, wellness and forgiveness. I have a Counselor Education and Supervision press, February 2011). I have been an multiple publications on these topics, doctoral candidate at Argosy University/ invited presenter in four ASERVIC including a recent article in the Journal Washington, DC and an adjunct sponsored education sessions at the of Counseling and Development and a ACA National Conference and will be professor. As an active member of ACA I book chapter for Integrating Spirituality leading an ACA presidentially highlighted participate in three divisions, three state into Counseling by Cashwell and Young session on spiritual integration in associations, and one regional association. (in press). In addition to membership in 2011. Currently, I am conducting Membership activities include, for ACA, CSI and ACES, I am an ASERVIC research to further validate ASERVIC’s example, serving as the coeditor for member. For this organization, I have Spiritual Competencies and to evaluate Interaction, ASERVIC’s newsletter; being served as the organization’s membership spiritual competency among ASERVIC an invited ACA blogger; and serving as committee cochair, conference cochair, membership. My vision for ASERVIC is the program manager for ACA’s DSM-V newsletter editor, secretary and appointed continued enhancement and promotion Task Force. In 2010 I received seven board member. I regularly attend of spiritual competence among graduate awards including Excellence in Faculty meetings and volunteer to assist as needed students, practitioners and educators. Research, ASERVIC Research Award, to further the mission of the organization. Providing members, especially students, and ASERVIC Outstanding Graduate with a clear understanding of the Qualifications and reasons Student. I have presented 11 sessions at components that make up spiritual for seeking office juried conferences related to spiritual competence prevents a myriad of My qualifications for this office include integration, including three invited unethical practices that may include previous work on the ASERVIC board ASERVIC sponsored sessions and one operating from personal religious/spiritual as an appointed officer. I agreed to fill invited ACA Presidential highlight. bias and failing to utilize best practices this position for a board member who Recent publications include a chapter, when addressing areas of spirituality. was unable to serve due to a conflict of Assessing the Religious and Spiritual Spiritual competence, for both educators interest in order to assist the organization. Domains, in Cashwell and Young’s and trainees, is paramount. This relates Additionally, when a secretary was second edition of Integrating religion to another goal, research and publication, needed, I agreed to move into that and spirituality in counseling: A guide to which serves to provide counselors position from the board as requested. competent practice (in press, February and educators with practical tools for I have assisted ASERVIC as newsletter 2011). I have four articles in progress and spiritual integration. Other goals include editor and this has provided me with am committed to active scholarship in the revitalizing our relationship with state up to date information regarding the areas of spiritual integration and disaster chapters and continuing to focus on organization’s events, goals, plans, and mental health. Locally, I am an appointed diversity within our membership. These needs. As newsletter editor, I have a Commissioner on the Arlington County goals serve not only to raise awareness unique understanding of the organization Emergency Preparedness Board and a of ASERVIC but also to sustain the and connection with the membership. volunteer within my local Red Cross and livelihood of our fellowship. Serving as membership committee Medical Reserve Corps chapters. cochair has also given me insight into Qualifications and reasons Carman Gill the membership. This past year, I was for seeking office able to volunteer to be conference My journey as an active member Professional background committee cochair for the second in ASERVIC began when I attended and experience ASERVIC conference on spirituality. my first ASERVIC Graduate Student My professional background and Assisting in organizing and participating Meeting. Seeing that only four students experience includes teaching elementary in this event was not only education but,
90 | Counseling Today | December 2010 again, helpful in gaining insight into Qualifications and reasons past year I have been involved in various the direction that ASERVIC is headed. for seeking office research projects addressing spiritual and ASERVIC has identified long range For many years, I have worked religious issues with deployed military goals and plans that I am excited about in organizations where spirituality personnel and counselor education investing in. I would like to continue and religion have been a part of the training. Other areas of interest include to have an active role in conference institution. I believe in the mission of existentialism and career counseling, organization and decisions, committee ASERVIC to “create an environment that clinical supervision and work-related and bylaw reorganizations, establishing empowers and enables the expression, issues, bullying, counseling competencies, a registry for counselors working with exploration, development, and research counselor continuing education and spiritual and religious issues, financial of evolving spiritual, ethical, and religious training, student incivility, co-occurring and business decisions that contribute to values as they relate to the person, disorders, and suicide. I have presented the overall success of ASERVIC because to society, and to the profession of on various topics at ACA, ACES, and this is an organization whose mission counseling and human development.” the Pennsylvania Counseling Association and values are essential to counselors I believe it is essential that we continue since 2004. I was the principal and client well-being. I will work toward to support the mission of ASERVIC investigator on a $361,460 Pennsylvania those goals by being present, being through dialogue with other divisions Department of Community and engaging, and offering assistance in any within ACA and the profession; and Economic Development HOME Grant task assigned to me as a board member. through a research emphasis on spiritual, awarded to establish a Fairweather Lodge ethical, and religious values. In my role in Central Pennsylvania. Leila Roach as Board member, I would like to work Qualifications and reasons collaboratively with other divisions on for seeking office Professional background issues important to our profession; to Through the integration of spirituality and experience promote and serve ASERVIC through and meditation, I have developed a more Leila received her Ph.D. Counselor ongoing projects and the 2012 National compassionate understanding of the Education - University of Central Conference; and to support community human condition and a clearer vision Florida, M.Ed. Human Development outreach projects. I would also like to of the spiritual interconnectedness that Counseling - Vanderbilt University, and see the organization reach out to state binds all life. I am seeking to become B.S. Special Education, Deaf - University organizations to support membership an ASERVIC board member because of Tennessee. She is an LMHC, LMFT, and involvement of counselors, counselor much of what this association stands and supervisor for MH counselors educators, and students on the local level. in Florida, and an NCC. Leila is an for is consistent with my personal and I have been a member of ASERVIC for professional values and beliefs. Serving assistant professor of counselor education many years and have served one term on at Stetson University and coordinator on the ASERVIC board provides me the the Board and as Ethics Committee Co- opportunity work with others who see of the Marriage, Couple, & Family Chair. I would be honored and humbled Counseling Program. She has worked the importance of establishing counselor to continue my service in this important competencies regarding spiritual, ethical, as a counselor for 21 years. Leila has ACA division. served on the ASERVIC and Florida and religious values and beliefs as an Counseling Association boards and is a integral part of the client’s worldview. I CACREP site team member. She belongs William R. Sterner am currently working on the ASERVIC to ACA, ACES, ASERVIC, IAMFC, Editorial Review Committee to assist AMHCA, AAMFT, APT, regional, state Professional background counselor educators with tools for and local affiliates, and Chi Sigma Iota. and experience implementing spiritual/religious issues in She has presented for the International I am currently in my second year as the classroom. It is my hope that these Counseling Conference (ICC), EB- an Assistant Professor of Counselor outcomes will extend to practitioners ACA, ACA, ACES, IAMFC, SACES, Education at Marymount University. I in the next phase of this project. The and FCA on several topics including graduated from Penn State University counseling profession has rightfully advocacy, ethics, wellness, spirituality, with a Ph.D. in Counselor Education in embraced the ideals of treating the couples counseling, culturally sensitive 2007 and a Master’s degree in Counselor whole client to the point of distinguish counseling for Deaf persons, and Education in 1994. I am Licensed itself through its professional identity group counseling, in addition to local Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania from other helping professions, yet workshops. She published two papers and North Carolina as well as a National my experiences within the profession for ICC on advocacy and an article for Certified Counselor. My clinical indicate many professional counselors CES on counselor wellness. She has experience has focused on community are not comfortable or competent coauthored a book chapter on spirituality counseling with an emphasis on mental addressing spiritual and religious issues and wellness that is currently in press. health and addictions issues. I also have in their work with clients. I believe my Leila is an American Red Cross Disaster experience conducting substance abuse role as an ASERVIC board member is Mental Health volunteer and community assessments within the criminal justice to continue to expand the discourse on resource speaker and mentor for Seminole system. Current memberships include the importance of spiritual, religious, County schools. ACA, ACES, and ASERVIC. For the and ethical values and how these values
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 91 can be a key component in healing for President-Elect. I consider it a privilege to and Co-Chair for ASGW at the ACA many clients. From a training perspective, join the ranks, past and future, of people National Convention. New England counselors can benefit from curricula committed to furthering the mission ASGW Branch: President, Chairs that make spiritual and religious content and function of the Association. To vote for Program Committee, and Chair and competencies more explicit and for me you should know my perception of the Finance Committee. ACA mainstream. If elected, I will strive and vision of this stellar association. Service: Chair of the Professional to continue the work of the board by ASGW is a professional, multidisciplinary Development Committee. Education: embracing its unified vision for spiritual association that succeeds in growing Ed.D., Counselor Education from and religious competencies and adding and maintaining a loyal number of the University of Maine, a C.A.S. and voice to the message of greater need for professionals and students who value the M.A. in School Counseling, Fairfield spiritual and religious integration into power of group work. ASGW embodies University, and B.S. in Education with counselor training. for me what a professional association a specialty in Multicultural Education, should be: I marvel at its model of Indiana University. I am a member of leadership and our membership’s ASGW, ACA, and ASCA. I was named Association for dedication to shared governance and ASGW Fellow and received the ASGW Specialists in responsibility, its lateral rather than President’s Award twice. I have presented Group Work hierarchical model of organization nationally and regionally on group work and task group leadership, its care to in school and consulted with schools on President-Elect continually emphasize relationships, and developing group work programs. I have its scholarly dedication to enhancing what run groups with k-12 students in public schools and have taught group courses to Kurt L. Kraus practitioners from diverse backgrounds know about groups. I also highly value prepare school counselors for the use of Professional background ASGW’s proud history within the group work in schools. Currently I am a and experience American Counseling Association. My visiting faculty for the School Counseling To lead the Association for Specialists commitment if elected is to continue the Program at the University of North in Group Work, I am particularly proud current path of purposeful expansion Florida and previously was on faculty at that: I became a member of ASGW in and service. In our unforgiving economy the University of Massachusetts Boston. the early 1980s as a student; I have been when professionals must make difficult Qualifications and reasons a member ever since. My early career as decisions about where their association for seeking office a professional counselor I was a school dollars will be spent, I want to strengthen I am very honored to be selected as counselor in rural Maine. I became the practical, economic value of joining a candidate for the office of ASGW licensed as an LCPC in Maine the year and renewing their ASGW membership. I President. Spanning three decades, I have licensure passed. I was the first LPC hired trust the membership to guide the growth been fortunate to have been involved at the Acadia Psychiatric Hospital in of the Association — so I intend to look in ASGW at the state, regional, and Bangor Maine. I pursued my doctorate. for new ways to ease and strengthen the national levels. Financial planning and I have been a counselor educator for 15 general membership’s invaluable input. management, professional development, years. I am now a Full Professor, in the Third, I want us to assert our presence and strategic planning are particular areas Department of Counseling and College — primarily as professional counselors that I have in-depth experiences. I believe Student Personnel at Shippensburg — across disciplines where group work that these combined years of experience University of Pennsylvania. I was the host is vital and vibrant. Our unique ability will guide my leadership to facilitate and one of three faculty of the inaugural to attract members, group workers from the work of the ASGW leadership team ASGW Advanced Group Training other professions, sets us apart within and our association. Experiences alone Institute in 2004. I am the proud 2005 ACA and I want to celebrate that in all though do not define a leader. Vision, Fellow in ASGW. I was awarded the we do. If elected, I’ll want to hear from beliefs, and passion also influence Pennsylvania Counseling Association’s you — ASGW is our association. Thank leadership. I hold strong beliefs for the David W. Hall Advocacy Award in 2007. you for the opportunity to lead. use of group work. I am passionate that I am the immediate past Chair of the group work can promote understanding Board of Directors of the NBCC, Inc. in our diverse culture, and enhance and Affiliates. Group work is a passion Rebecca A. Schumacher development of human beings. Simply of mine. Through my career thus far, I’ve Professional background stated, I believe group work can make served many roles as a member in ASGW; and experience our world a better place. ASGW was I would love to be elected your president- Service to ASGW: Treasurer, founded “to promote quality in group elect. Secretary, and Process Observer. ASGW work training, practice, and research.” Qualifications and reasons Committees service: Registration Chair This guiding principle is as timely now for seeking office for the ASGW National Conference in as it was in 1973. In addition, ASGW I am prepared to lead the Association New Orleans, Professional Development has long held the values of “service, for Specialists in Group Work; I’m Chair, State Divisions Chair, ASGW leadership, and community.” Based on honored to run for the position of Representative for 20/20 Delegation, the founding beliefs and guiding values
92 | Counseling Today | December 2010 of the organization, if elected, I would (since 1990) Central Florida Chapter, M. Carolyn Thomas emphasize two areas. 1. Enhance our President (1995) Publications Counselor Professional background professional development activities and the Law (2008), Wheeler & Bertram and experience and explore the use of technology in Risk Management Strategies CD/Podcast M. Carolyn Thomas is Professor and professional training. 2. Development of ASGW Group Practice Ideas, Winter Coordinator of Counselor Education, a strategic plan that includes short and 2001 & Winter 2009 long term goals for the next decade. I Auburn Montgomery, AL. Education: am committed to furthering the mission Qualifications and reasons B.S. Newcomb College (Zoology); M.Ed. of ASGW and promoting the strong for seeking office Tulane University (School Counseling); values of the organization. I am especially ASGW is a friendly and relevant Ph.D. University of Iowa (Counselor excited of the possibility of serving as the organization — it is my professional Education); M.S. AUM (Community ASGW President. home. Anyone who has ever attended our Psychology) Certification and Licensure: conference, “hung out” in our exhibit Licensed Professional Counselor, booth, or attended our luncheon during Certified Counselor Supervisor, Licensed Governing Council the ACA Conference can attest to the Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed inclusive energy that binds us together. I Bachelor Social Worker Professional Representative am honored to offer my time and talent Experience: Counselor Educator (37 to be our representative to the ACA years); Director, University Counseling Burt Bertram Governing Council. If elected, it will be Centers (25 years); Counselor, my pleasure to represent the needs and Montgomery Family Violence Center Professional background interests of ASGW and, when there is (27 years) Association Experience: ACA and experience an opportunity, to provide a sprinkling Governing Council Representative I have been a professional counselor of group process “Pixie Dust” (what do (current); ASGW President (2005); (LMHC & LMFT) in Orlando, Florida you expect … I live in Orlando). Let me ASGW Treasurer (1997-2003); ACA since 1972, a member of ACA since tell you why at this stage of my career Treasurer (2003); NCDA Trustee-at- 1974 and ASGW since 1995. Graduate I am seeking this opportunity. In the Large (1992-1996); ACA Governing education includes Ed.D., University of early 1980s, while serving as president Council Process Observer (2001) Florida (1987) and M.Ed. University of of the Florida Counseling Association Professional Memberships: ASGW, Central Florida (1974). My professional (then Florida Association for Counseling NCDA, ACES, AADA, Alabama career has always been a unique mix of & Development), I was involved in CA, ALASGW, ALCDA, ALAADA, four inter-related activities. 1) Clinical ALACES, APA, Division 49 Recognition: Private Practice Individuals, Families, the initial counselor licensing struggles in Florida. These activities proved to ASGW Fellow (1993); NCDA Fellow Couples 2) Organization Consulting (2002); Point of Light (1991); AUM Team Building and Conflict Resolution be pivotal in terms of cementing my commitment to professional identity School of Education Research Award 3) Counselor Education & Clinical (2006); Outstanding Counseling Center Supervision Adjunct Faculty, Rollins development. For the last 30 years I have invested myself in the ongoing Director (1999); AUM Community College, Winter Park, FL Ethics, Family/ Outreach Award Publications and Couples Counseling, Practicum/ evolution of our profession and the professional identity development of Presentations: Chapters, articles, and Internship Clinical Supervision: pre- presentations on group work with licensed counselors 4) Seminars & students and practitioners. Whether victims of family abuse, shy students, Workshops Legal & Ethical Issues (100+) serving as an association officer/ older persons, GLBT clients, k-12 career Professional association conferences (50+) committee member, counselor educator, development and career planning for Community or workplace presentations author, clinical supervisor/mentor, or battered women Community Service: (750+) 5) Professional Service & practitioner I have been ever mindful of Helped start the Domestic Abuse Leadership ACA (since 1974) 20/20 the enormous importance of the work Shelter and Coalition Against Domestic Vision for the Future of Counseling we do and how absolutely vital it is that Violence. Train DAS hotline counselors (Present) Credentialing Committee professional counselors are supported and conduct groups for battered women, (1989-1991) Professional Affairs by a robust professional association. mothers of sexually abused children, and Committee (1989-1990) Counselor ACA has come a long way … and survivors of sexual abuse. Image Committee 1985-1986 ACA yet, in many ways, has only begun to Insurance Trust Member & Chair (1984- address the many and complex needs Qualifications and reasons 1991) Florida Counseling Association and interests of professional counselors. for seeking office President (1984-1985) Florida Mental I relish the opportunity to have a voice My combined involvement and Health Counselors President (1983-1984) in the governance ACA as we strive to leadership in ASGW and ACA have ASGW (since 1995) Website Redesign, support the growth and development of provided me with a comprehensive Co-Chair (Currently) Marketing counselors. I believe I can represent the understanding of governance and fiscal Committee, Co-Chair (2005-2009) interests of ASGW and at the same time responsibility at the division and ACA Process Observer (2004-2005) Mentoring be a calming “non-anxious presence” on levels. My experiences as a past ACA Committee, Chair (2004-205) AAMFT Governing Council. Treasurer, past chair and current member
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 93 of the ACA Financial Affairs Committee, an Assistant Professor of Counselor recognition for individuals who are and ACA Governing Council Process Education at East Carolina University. making distinctive contributions as Observer formed a strong foundation Another relevant leadership position I humanistic counselors, educators, and for current contributions to responsible have held was the Chair of the American scholars. I intend to continue to promote fiscal planning. My history of ASGW College Counseling Association’s these forms of recognition as a means leadership as ASGW President and Professional Advocacy and Public of increasing awareness of C-AHEAD, ASGW Treasurer gave me the knowledge Awareness Committee. I have been an and the important role of humanism in and skills to work closely with ACA active member of C-AHEAD including the counseling profession. Last, I am a as an ASGW representative. My most my two terms as Editor of The Journal member of a Division task force that is significant qualification is my history of of Humanistic Counseling, Education in the process of developing two national forming collaborative and close working and Development and I continue to serve credentials: 1) the Certified Humanistic relationships within and between ACA as a member of the JHCEAD Editorial Counselor, and 2) the Certified and ASGW. My goal as ASGW President Board. My research interests include Humanistic Counselor Educator. I was to maintain a division professionals client preferences for counselor role, plan to continue to contribute to the join because of the way we treat each culturally responsive counseling, and development and implementation of other. My goal in ACA leadership was constructivist career counseling. I am these credentials as a means of promoting to foster fiscal responsibility while currently coediting a book for C-AHEAD awareness and implementation of encouraging new services and creative titled “Humanistic Perspectives on humanistic practices among counseling solutions to difficult problems. My Contemporary Counseling Issues.” In professionals. ASGW colleagues and I have consistently addition, I am a member of a C-AHEAD believed that divisions are the backbone task force charged with developing of ACA, and governance models must professional credentials for humanistic Governing Council preserve the strength of individual counselor educators and counseling Representative divisions so that members can realize practitioners. their maximum potential in making Qualifications and reasons Michael Walsh specialty contributions to the counseling for seeking office profession. While maintaining the I have been an active member of the Professional background viability of individual divisions, the ACA Counseling Association for Humanistic and experience Governing Council is a crucial conduit Education, and Development I received my Masters in Rehabilitation for building collaborative alliances (C-AHEAD) for over eight years. A Counseling from the University of among the divisions. By preserving the salient strength of C-AHEAD has been South Carolina School of Medicine and strength of divisions and maximizing the our Division’s participation in joint my PhD from the University of South sharing of specialties, the total counseling projects involving other ACA divisions. Carolina School of Education. I am a profession will remain a comprehensive Along these same lines, I am interested in Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in entity. If re-elected as the ASGW forming partnerships with other divisions South Carolina, a Certified Rehabilitation Governing Council representative, I will for purposes of combining talents and Counselor (CRC) and a Certified represent ASGW and ACA members resources in order to more effectively Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner in the combined efforts to keep ACA address important issues, develop new (CPRP). As a faculty member at the a stable, diverse, creative, and growing initiatives, and provide services to University of South Carolina School of profession. counseling professionals. Through my Medicine’s Rehabilitation Counseling past involvement with C-AHEAD I am program, I am involved in teaching both familiar with our Division’s involvement traditional in-person classes as well as Counseling in social activism (e.g., promoting high quality distance education courses. Association for children’s rights) and charitable causes I have spent some time researching the Humanistic Education (e.g., the Empty Plate Project) and I factors that are involved in effective and Development fully intend to contribute my energies distance education and have a strong to continuing these vital traditions. Our interest in developing ways to bring President-Elect current and past Presidents have actively humanistic educational principles into engaged Division members through the the process. As an active private practice Mark B. Scholl use of technology. I intend to continue clinician, I am always looking for ways the practice of utilizing technological to improve my clinical skills as well as Professional background resources such as social networking sites, my ability to enhance the relationship and experience electronic publications, and webinars with my clients. I am currently at I have a PhD in Counselor Education to attract new members and to enhance work on a number of writing projects and have worked as a counselor or and maintain the involvement of current having to do with effective education counselor educator for the past 12 years. I members. I have been actively involved and clinical practice. I am also an active am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, in Executive Council meetings leading community leader, heading a nonprofit a National Certified Counselor, and to the development of new forms of mental health agency for the past five
94 | Counseling Today | December 2010 years. I would welcome the chance to the counseling profession. I have been centralize the message of social justice. It bring my background and experience on the leadership team of CSJ for the is my hope that if elected, I can develop to the Governing Council on behalf of last three years and have served on new partnerships and fortify existing C-AHEAD. various committees. I have published ones to demonstrate how social justice is in ACA Journals including the Journal an inherent part of counseling regardless Qualifications and reasons of Counseling and Development of division membership or counselor for seeking office and Professional School Counseling. specialization. I have been involved with C-AHEAD Currently, I am coeditor of the Activist since 2004 and am very excited to be a newsletter, a publication of CSJ. I part of this organization. As a two-time especially enjoy mentoring new counselor Selma D. Yznaga president of this division, I am firmly educators through the tenure process and committed to bringing awareness of Professional background volunteering with local school counselors. humanistic practices to the counseling and experience community. I also feel that I have built Qualifications and reasons Selma D. Yznaga is a counselor solid relationships with ACA staff for seeking office educator at The University of Texas at members as well as members of other I have extensive experience in CSJ Brownsville. She earned her doctorate divisions. Thanks to the pioneering leadership gained by serving in different at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, work of the C-AHEAD leaders before capacities including Community Texas in Counselor Education and me, we have, in recent years, established Representative and Newsletter Coeditor. Supervision. Her professional experience collaborative relationships that will Additionally, I have been CSJ’s delegate includes school counseling at the enhance our ability to thrive in years to to the 20/20 strategic planning elementary and secondary school levels. She is currently tenured faculty at UTB. come. I would very much like to have a committee on the Vision of the Future of Dr. Yznaga’s research interests include chance to see some of those opportunities Counseling; served on the membership immigration issues, acculturation, and through and to foster new ones. In my committee and the ACES-CSJ Social ethnic identity development. She has opinion, there has never been a better Justice Summit planning committee; presented extensively on culturally time to take a humanistic approach to our participated in CSJ’s Task Force on appropriate treatment of Mexican-descent clients and our students. I believe that in social justice and proposed changes to students and clients, multicultural focusing on enhancing the relationship the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-V. competencies, and ethics. Dr. Yznaga is among people, we bring enhanced These responsibilities have provided a former cochair of the Texas Counseling opportunity for growth. As Governing unique vantage points in understanding Association’s Ethics Committee, and Council representative, I would very how our division functions as an entity, as the School Counselor Issues, Advocacy, much appreciate the opportunity to work a part of the ACA, and in our relationship and Public Policy Committee. In 2007, for the good of the division and to foster to the profession and community at large. she founded the Texas Counselors for the relationships that will help us to be Thus, I feel especially prepared to serve as Social Justice and recently completed a successful. CSJ president at this critical time in CSJ’s three-year term as the division’s director. history. My experiences representing CSJ Her passion for social justice and the have led me to recognize the importance counseling profession has been recognized Counselors for of bringing the message, actions, and by state and national organizations, Social Justice spirit of social justice back to the center of including the Texas Counseling our profession. The counseling profession Association (Molly Gerold Award for President-Elect was born and sustained as a result of an Human Rights), the Texas School active commitment to social justice by Counselor’s Association (Counselor people like Frank Parsons, Carl Rogers, Rhonda M. Bryant Educator of the Year), and ACA’s and Mary Arnold. Therefore, in keeping Counselors for Social Justice (‘Ohana Professional background with the profession’s social justice legacy, Award). Dr. Yznaga is a current appointee and experience my goals include 1) continuing important of the ACA Human Rights Committee I am a counselor educator at Albany dialogues with ACA and other counseling and the National Implementation State University in Albany, GA. I identify organizations about how operationalized Planning Committee for the ACA 2011 strongly as a counselor and have been social justice promotes client wellness; New Orleans Project. involved with ACA for over 10 years. I and 2) operationalizing social justice hold a Ph.D. in Counselor Education principles not only through scholarship Qualifications and reasons from the University of Virginia and but also through targeted partnerships for seeking office have counseled in community and with counselors, potential consumers, and Guided by the principles of equity, K-16 settings. I currently hold the LPC community partners. Establishing more access, participation, and harmony, it is credential in Georgia and the NBCC state CSJ chapters, continuing increases my desire to serve Counselors for Social counselor and school counselor national in division membership, and ongoing Justice in the capacity of president. My certifications. Last year, I was awarded community service projects during the goals as an advocate and an educator the O’Hana Award for promoting ACA Annual Conference and through the are simple: 1) to identify and enlist all social justice in my community and outreach of CSJ state chapters will help individuals who value human dignity
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 95 and who acknowledge that there is much Founders’ Award, Argosy University continue to collaborate with community work to be done in the arena of human CSI, Chi Epsilon, Outstanding programs to promote prevention, rights; 2) to provide awareness for those Doctoral Student CSI, Fellow CSI, advocacy, training for the treatment who have not yet been convinced that Chi Epsilon, Outstanding Service to marginalized populations with substance many groups continue to experience the Chapter Award Gray, G., McLeod, abuse and criminal justice problems. the daily pain of prejudice, oppression A., & Edwards, B. (2010, October). and racism; and 3) to facilitate practical I’m in Recovery: Assessing the impact and action-oriented solutions that of supervisor recovery status on the Secretary would contribute to the mitigation, supervisory relationship. Presented at if not eradication, of marginalization the Southern Association for Counselor Keith Morgen in any form. My interpersonal and Education and Supervision Conference, leadership styles are grounded in respect Williamsburg, Virginia. Gray, G., & Professional background and relationship building. In the spirit Dew, B. (2008 October). Addictions and experience of strengthening the corps, my voice is training that works! Understanding Education Ph.D., Counseling firm but always respectful of diversity factors that influence positive student Psychology, Lehigh University of opinion and thought. Each of us outcome in a graduate addictions course. Predoctoral/Postdoctoral Fellowship in brings a unique talent to this work, and Presented at the SACES Conference, the Behavioral Sciences Training in Drug my hope is to assemble this talent to Houston, TX. PFLAG/Atlanta, United Abuse Research Program, funded by the form a powerful group whose presence Way African American Partnership, National Institute on Drug Abuse and inspires and strengthens those who feel Gwinnett United in Drug Education, jointly sponsored by the Medical and disempowered. I believe that I have the Inc., New Life Baptist Church Missions Health Research Association of New York leadership skills to organize Division Ministry. City, Inc. and National Development leaders and members to develop and Qualifications and reasons and Research Institutes. Certification accomplish realistic goals, and to for seeking office and Licensure LPC (New Jersey), NCC Recent Professional Experience continue building effective coalitions I am honored and humbled to be Assistant Professor, Centenary College, with other ACA organizations. My nominated for President-Elect of the Hackettstown, NJ ACA, Division experiences in Texas have taught me to International Association for Addiction Membership IAAOC Association lead with an open ear and an open heart, and Offender Counseling. (IAAOC). I Experience Chair, IAAOC Spirituality to make commitments that I can keep, have been actively involved in IAAOC Committee Member, ACA Research & and to see projects through to success. as a graduate student and professional Knowledge Committee Publications With members’ input and support, member for the past five years. My Morgen, K., Morgan, O.J., Cashwell, we can continue the work of social experience began when Simone C., & Miller, G. (2010). Strategies for justice: equity, access, participation, and Lambert and Laura Veach encouraged the competent integration of spirituality ultimately, harmony. me to participate in the graduate into addictions counseling training and student carousel at ACA in 2005. It supervision. VISTAS 2010. Morgen, was this experience of mentoring that K. & Morgan, O.J. (in press). 12-step International sparked my excitement and enthusiasm spirituality. In J. Scott Young & C. Association of about IAAOC. Through support Cashwell (Eds.), Integrating spirituality Addictions and and encouragement from many of and religion in counseling: A guide to Offender Counselors the executive council members, I’ve competent practice (2nd ed.). Alexandria, had the opportunity to serve as the VA: ACA. Morgen, K. & Kressel, D. President-Elect Secretary and Chair of the Multicultural (2010). Motivation change in therapeutic Addictions Committee. IAAOC is a community treatment. Journal of strong organization dedicated to the Geneva Gray Addictions and Offender Counseling, advocacy, leadership, and prevention 30, 73-83. Maschi, T., Gibson, S., & Professional background in the field of addiction and criminal Morgen, K. (in press). Trauma and life and experience justice. During my involvement in event stressors among young and older Education Ph.D - Counselor Education IAAOC, I’ve recognized a need for adult prisoners. Journal of Correctional and Practice; Georgia State University increased emphasis on diversity and Healthcare. Certification and Licensure LPC, advocacy in the addiction and criminal NCC Recent Professional Experience justice. As President of IAAOC, I Qualifications and reasons Assistant Professor - Argosy University/ plan to create mentoring programs for seeking office Atlanta Individual/Family Therapist to increase involvement of diverse I see IAAOC as a thriving and growing for Children and Adolescents Clinical populations in leadership positions division. For the past two years I have Supervisor ACES, SACES, CSI, IAAOC within the association. I would also like served this exciting division as Chair Chair, IAAOC Multicultural Addictions to increase community agency counselors’ of the Spirituality Committee, where Committee Secretary, IAAOC CSI, involvement in IAAOC projects and I worked on building the spirituality Alpha Upsilon Alpha, Suprina-Turner programs, Additionally, I would like to programming within IAAOC that
96 | Counseling Today | December 2010 included an ACA panel on spirituality Social Sciences certificate from Statistics. Studies, Industrial/Organizational in addictions, a special issue of JAOC com and am currently enrolled in their Psychology, Oregon State University; on spirituality, and an upcoming chapter Clinical Trials Program for Advanced Professional Studies, Management, on 12-step spirituality in a major text on Statistical Studies. Lincoln University, New Zealand spirituality and religion in counseling. Affiliations: NECA — Dedicated Qualifications and reasons I am also developing ACA service to helping people prepare for, enter, for seeking office experience with my recent appointment understand and progress in the I am honored to be nominated as the to the Research and Knowledge world of work through Legislative Governing Council representative for the Committee. I see the role of Secretary as advocacy, establishing standards and International Association for Addictions first and foremost assisting the President guidelines, showcasing best practices and Offender Counselors. I once again with the current agenda and goals for and networking. ACA, Professional — a feel privileged to be associated with IAAOC. As a member of the IAAOC professional and educational organization a great organization that is dedicated governing body the Secretary is one voice dedicated to the growth/enhancement amongst the other officers, current, past to the development and leadership of of the counseling profession. American and future IAAOC Presidents, committee counselor educators, counselors, and Psychological Association — a chairs, and (most importantly) our counseling students who have an interest scientific and professional organization members. I would work in any capacity in addictions and offender issues. When that represents psychology in the to enhance the IAAOC membership I think of IAAOC, I immediately reflect USA. Nationally Board for Certified experience for our professional and upon the dedicated and hardworking Counselors — an independent, student members. IAAOC welcomed professionals and leaders who have helped voluntary, nongovernmental corporation me to become as involved as I wished make it one of the top divisions within established to advance credentialing right from the start of my membership. ACA. If I am fortunate enough to be of professional counselors. National IAAOC (and ACA) is my professional elected Governing Council representative, Association for Rural Mental Health — home. I would greatly appreciate the I see part of my responsibility as focuses on rural people and associated chance to serve the dedicated members of continuing the positive developments mental health issues. Information IAAOC as Secretary. of the past and helping to keep IAAOC Resource Management Association — a leadership informed of the many exciting research-based organization dedicated ways ACA is moving forward. I envision to advancing concepts/practices of Governing Council myself as an important communication information resources management in link between IAAOC and ACA. It will postmodern organizations. Counselors be particularly important for IAAOC to for Social Justice — a community of Todd F. Lewis have a voice in legislative matters, and counselors, who seek equity, an end to I am dedicated to fulfilling this role. Professional background oppression, and injustice affecting social, My experience as IAAOC President and experience cultural, and institutional systems. confirms that the Governing Council I hold a Ph.D. in Counselor Education Distinguished Recognition: HDR, Inc. representative holds an important and Supervision from Kent State National Pathfinder Award – Leadership position in our leadership, offering key University and am a Licensed Professional Outstanding Service Award – Veterans insights into the latest movements and Counselor in North Carolina and a Administration Roseburg Healthcare trends within ACA. I pledge to honor my System, Oregon Lebanon’s Communities National Certified Counselor. I am a commitment to this important position That Care; Volunteer of the Year 2009. member of the American Counseling should I be fortunate enough to be Association, the International Association Qualifications and reasons for Addictions and Offender Counseling, elected to it. for seeking office the Association for Counselor Education The state of our economy at this and Supervision, and the Association for National Employment time and the toll it is taking on the Assessment in Counseling and Education. Counseling Association financial and mental health of our I have held previous leadership positions culture is astounding. As counselors, we as IAAOC President and Treasurer. I have President-Elect strive to continue to address the many twice been the recipient of the IAAOC important related issues as they effect Research Grant Award, as well as the Tom Ayala our clients. Nonetheless, reports indicate Outstanding Research Award through as dire as the economy is, those who are IAAOC. My professional publications Professional background transitioning into new roles are said to be have primarily been in the areas of and experience much happier. NECA is committed to adolescent and collegiate substance Education: PhD [Student], continue to serve as a valuable resource use, motivational interviewing and its Organizational Leadership, The Chicago for career development and employment application to treatment of substance School of Professional Psychology; MA counselors who work in the trenches abuse and other addictions, and Adlerian Counseling George Fox University; MS with clients who are working through models applied to drinking behavior. I Interdisciplinary Studies, California challenging transitions. As President of hold an Advanced Statistical Studies - State University, Stanislaus; Professional NECA I will focus on continuing the
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 97 NECA charter to address the many issues individuals 12-60 years old, including six colleges and universities including that face our hardworking counselors individuals with disabilities. My Duke University, Indiana University, such as competence, self-care, the experience is comprehensive and includes Meredith College, and the University of environment, discrimination, burnout employment with community based North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is and stress, Employee Assistance work, organizations, national organizations, a published writer and career author in technology and employee rights. I work health care, and educational institutions. national resume writing books. in private practice in rural mental health I have provided individualized career Qualifications and reasons counseling, researched, developed and and employment counseling. I also serve for seeking office implemented career and transition the community as an organizational I have a broad-based background in programs, directed and managed consultancy. This experience allows counseling, human services, mental employment-related projects, both at the incredible insight into the very issues health, and substance abuse services. This local and national level, and developed that face NECA as an ACA Division includes in-home services, residential, and maintained partnerships at all and allow me the leverage to consult outpatient and inpatient locations. I and collaborate with others to address levels to build capacity and leverage have worked with just about every client the issues at hand. I believe every rural resources. I have coauthored several book population as a counselor, and I served mental health clinician should be a chapters, presented at local and national as a telephone crisis counselor volunteer member of NECA to stay connected to conferences, and provided training and for five years as well. I have served as the issues they encounter every day and consultation to a variety of employers a College Career Counselor, Social the valuable resources that enhance their including private employers, as well as Worker for the home-based frail elderly, helping skills. Federal, State and local governments. Counselor for a teen pregnancy grant, I am a member of the American nursing home social work Department Counseling Association, National Head, Youth Home Counselor, Treasurer Employment Counseling Association, Psychiatric Social Worker, Assistant and the National Rehabilitation Director of Psychiatric Utilization Counseling Association. Michael C. Lazarchick Review, as a Vocational Counselor, Family Counselor, Tutor, Staffing Professional background Sharon McCormick Specialist, Recruiter, Corporate career and experience coach, Career Instructor, EAP Trainer, I am a NECA past president and Professional background Director of Career Services, Federal have served on your executive board for and experience Human Resources Specialist and business two decades. When I was your ACA Sharon McCormick has worked with owner of a HR and Career Counseling governing council representative, I served corporate, Federal, higher education firm for 15+ years. In addition, I have a on the financial affairs committee. I have and nonprofit organizations in career wealth of experience in the counseling been looking at the financial affairs of coaching, career counseling, career field both as an employee and as a NECA for years and will ensure that we development, career planning, human volunteer, with 15+ years of volunteer spend our money wisely. resources, human services, job placement, experience. I value people that is how recruiting, staffing, teaching and training. I demonstrate my commitment to the Qualifications and reasons Her Master’s Degree is in Counseling. field. I would be thrilled to be a part of for seeking office Sharon is a Master Career Counselor such a valuable organization and my goals I am a licensed professional counselor, (MCC), a Certified Leadership & would be to continue to drive forward well versed in ethics, who will ensure the Talent Management Coach and a the organization’s mission and vision for integrity of our finances. Certified Career Management Coach. success. She is a National Board Certified Career Counselor (NCCC); a National Trustee Board Certified Counselor (NCC), a John Watters nationally Certified Professional Resume Professional background Andrea Edelman Writer (CPRW), a Distance Certified and experience Career Counselor (DCC) and a Career During my career I have been working Professional background Development Facilitator (CDF). An primarily in the areas of recruiting, and experience active volunteer in the community marketing, and general management. I hold a Masters Degree in Education for 15+ years, she serves on a local As an executive recruiter for DHR from the University of Maryland, am Workforce Development Board, as an International and most recently with the a Licensed Professional Counselor, a HR & Job Placement Consultant to Watters Group, I recruited executives for Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, and the InStepp Employment Program, as a management, marketing, sales, finance, a Global Career Development Facilitator. Career Counselor with Futures for Kids, information technology, and human My work experience spans 20 years and with other career and employment resource positions across a variety of during which time I have provided organizations. She developed and industries. During my 14 years as a career and employment counseling to taught career and workplace classes at recruiter, my clients have included a wide
98 | Counseling Today | December 2010 range of large multinational corporations me to contribute to the goals of the Board Member Cheaha Mental Health as well as many small, midsize, and organization. I’m not a joiner by nature. Center. Grants received: ACA PPL FY start-up companies. My marketing and In fact I try not to get involved with 07 Legislative Grant, ACA PPL FY 07 management background was developed organizations unless I feel I can make a Legislative Institute Attendee Grant, while working in the media industry difference and will actually participate. ALSDE Dependent Care Grant, and for Knight Ridder Newspapers and The NECA is an organization that I feel ALSDE Community Education Grant. the hospitality industry for the Jerrico I will be able to dedicate the kind of time Qualifications and reasons Corporation where I was responsible required because it has a mission and for seeking office for general and financial management, purpose that I support. Whether I am I currently serve as Southern Region strategic planning, media sales, elected to the trustee board or not, I want Representative to ACA Governing promotions, marketing and new product to thank you for letting me participate in Council and am a member of ACA development. I received my Bachelor of the selection process and I will be glad to Executive Committee. My involvement Arts in Psychology from Florida State help in any way I can. as an active member in ACA began in University and my Masters in Business graduate school. My service began in my Administration from the University of state branch where I served as president, Miami. For three years I served as adjunct Southern Region secretary, and treasurer. I have also been professor at the University of Central an officer at the division and chapter Florida where I taught marketing, Governing Council levels. I have 18 years experience in advertising and retail management. Representative the counseling profession. As Southern I have completed the requirements Region Representative to Governing for the Global Career Development Council, I would like to continue serving Facilitator and am currently applying Annette P. Bohannon in that role for the purposes of advancing for the certification. I am a member of Professional background ACA’s work. As ACA moves forward, the National Employment Counseling and experience I believe I can work collaboratively Association and the National Career I received my Ed.D. in Counselor and successfully with other ACA Development Association. Education am currently a high school members and officers in our association’s Qualifications and reasons counselor. My work experience includes advancement. Our association has a rich for seeking office assistant professor, part-time private history and the future looks promising When I was nominated for the NECA practitioner, and education specialist. as we work together to advocate for our trustee board, I was frankly somewhat I am a LPC and NCC. Association profession and our customers. We have surprised since I am not a professional memberships include ACA, ACC, ASCA, been involved internationally for a while, counselor. Then I realized that I could ACASR, ALCA, ALSCA, ALMHCA, and we are truly moving toward a global bring a perspective from my years of and DKG International. I currently presence in the counseling profession. working as a headhunter and a business serve on ACA Executive Committee We are working toward unity and executive that might be useful to the and as ACASR Representative to diversity within our association and the organization. This became evident Governing Council. Professional profession. Our association will always during my recent course work for the service: offices in ACA at the regional, be changing and growing as we are GCDF certification. My colleagues were branch, division, and chapter levels. committed to improving the quality of counselors and I was a businessman. At Awards and honors: recognition as life for those we serve and our members. first I felt out of place but as time went ACASR Secretary-Treasurer, ACASR The work of Governing Council provides on, my contributions increased and I Chair, ALCA President’s Award, Beta an important and valuable service. As was able to provide a different approach State Achievement Award, ALCA Southern Region Representative to and solution to many of the issues and Chapter VII Outstanding Member, Governing Council, I commit to serving problems facing those of us who work Outstanding and Dedicated Volunteer, ethically and responsibly. I will serve as in career related fields. This was not Russell Corporation Award-Special a representative with the interest of all a one-way street; I was able to gain a Area. Publications: Bohannon, A. P. members and customers in mind. tremendous amount of insight for the (2009). Confidentiality. In American counseling side of career development Counseling Association (Ed.), The ACA Jeff Siskind and the needs of the displaced worker encyclopedia of counseling (pp. 65). while working with professional Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Professional background counselors on a wide variety of topics. I Association. Jenkins, M. C., Friery, K., and experience guess what I’m saying is that the synergy Bohannon, A. P., Kiser, J. D., and Kiser, Professional Experiences: Primarily that took place because of our different T. R. (2001). Alabama achievers: Studies in Seminole County, Florida. I have backgrounds was quite productive. for character development. Livingston, served as district Lead Counselor, having While my academic qualifications are AL: Alabama Counseling Association. been a counselor at the elementary, not those of a professional counselor Community Service: Sponsor, Chi Theta middle, and high school levels. Other I feel my real world experience and Chapter, Chi Sigma Iota; Coosa County previous positions include: President of consultive work over the years will enable Family Festival Committee and past school district’s teacher association (full-
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 99 time position for 2500 teacher-based Dedicatee; FCA Advocate of the Year; I believe the recognitions I have received employees); Teachers as Advisers Program initial recipient of: Joseph Wittmer affirm my demonstrated leadership rather Coordinator; Secondary School Teacher. Distinguished Professional Award than my simply possessing previous Part-time positions: Private Practice; (University of Florida) and Alumnus of association titles. If elected, my Govern- Adjunct Counselor/Instructor, Seminole the Year (Rollins College Counseling ing Council member priorities would State College and Rollins College/ Program). include: • Given the many association University of Central Florida graduate choices members now face, ACA must counseling programs. Education: Qualifications and reasons demonstrate the “value-added” of being Ph.D.; Ed.S., Counselor Education, for seeking office an ACA member, especially to practitio- University of Florida; M.Ed., Guidance/ Having been elected and then serving Counseling, Rollins College; B.A., as your Southern Region Chair, I am ners. • We must prioritize communicat- Psychology; Social Studies Education, honored to be nominated for Southern ing the value of counseling to the public, Florida State University Certification Region Governing Council Representa- especially to policy-makers. We must have and Licensure: LMHC, LMFT, NCC, tive by the state leaders of our respective a strong legislative voice. • ACA must NCSC, School Counseling Certification Southern Region branches. As a candi- promote the inclusiveness of counseling Association Experiences: Chair, ACA- date, I believe I offer diverse association while fostering collaboration of divi- Southern Region; Executive Director, experience, demonstrated leadership, and sions and regions. Branch development Florida Counseling Association (FCA) a collaborative working style that will is imperative. • ACA is a business; the (16 years); President and Treasurer, assist our Governing Council in leading Governing Council must provide strong ACA toward our preferred future. In ad- FCA; President, Seminole County oversight, especially in regard to fiscal dition to my leadership positions in local, Counseling Association. Member, ACA responsibility. • As our membership ages, state, and regional counseling associa- Developmental School Counseling it is critical that we grow and include new Committee and State Branch Task Force. tions, I served as President, locally, and as leadership. Although I’ve spoken of my Chair, Florida ACT Council. Pre-K Pre-K Executive Cabinet Representative, experience, I believe I would provide the Executive Cabinet Representative, Florida statewide, of another nonprofit profes- Education Association. Membership in sional association. My Executive Director 15,000 members of our Southern Region a multitude of national/state divisions. role (16 years) of the Florida Counsel- states a fresh perspective on the Govern- Awards/Honors: ASCA Secondary ing Association required a management ing Council. Advancing our association is School Counselor of the Year; ACA rather than leadership viewpoint. These our collective responsibility. I would ap- Government Relations Award; FCA as well as other nontraditional ACA preciate the opportunity to do my part by Jeff Siskind Leadership Award (award organizational experiences have afforded serving you as your Governing Council named in my honor); FCA Convention me invaluable perspective. Furthermore, representative. u Play Therapy: Bouncing Into the Basics presented by Jennifer Baggerly In this upbeat, entertaining introduction to play therapy, Jennifer Baggerly uses puppets to help communicate the rationale, principles, and basic skills of play therapy. Each skill is demonstrated through clips of play therapy sessions with culturally diverse children. Skills shown include tracking play behavior, reflecting feelings, returning responsibility, showing encouragement, building self-esteem, facilitating understanding, and setting therapeutic limits. Includes Leader’s Guide with questions for reflection. Produced by Microtraining and Multicultural Development.
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100 | Counseling Today | December 2010 master’s degrees in secondary education followed Victor’s advice that he offered Obituary and counseling from Western Michigan way back when,” said West-Olatunji, now University, followed by a doctorate in serving as AMCD’s representative to the educational psychology from the University ACA Governing Council. “Even my inter- of Michigan. Upon graduating with est in developing international outreach his master’s, Bibbins’ first job was as a initiatives, beginning with southern Africa, counselor in the Detroit public school was an idea rooted in Victor’s insight and system. He moved on to become assistant vision for social justice in counseling. You director for Wayne State University’s see, Victor had led an AMCD-sponsored Upward Bound Program, where he had the trip to South Africa several years prior to opportunity to travel to the 1972 American my initial trip in 2007. He believed that Personnel and Guidance Association (now AMCD should serve as a leader, as a cham- ACA) convention. AMCD was born at pion for social justice and advocacy ideals, Victor E. Bibbins Sr. that conference, although under a different in partnership with other ACA divisions as name, and Bibbins joined on the spot. Past leader of AMCD, advocate for well as other professional organizations.” Sandhu called Bibbins a “shining star” in multiculturalism and beloved mentor “In sum, Victor will always be a compass AMCD. “He was passionate about the is- for AMCD and ACA,” West-Olatunji said. sues that affect minorities, the poor and the Victor E. Bibbins Sr., past president of “His groundedness in knowing that ‘it will the Association for Multicultural Counsel- oppressed. As he was raised during the civil all work out,’ his faith in the profession ing and Development (2000-2001), a divi- rights movement, Victor was a great advo- and his sense of integrity founded upon his sion of the American Counseling Associa- cate and courageous activist in promoting identity as a strong African American male tion, died Oct. 17 at the age of 63. equity and social justice. … For almost 40 are a guiding light for all of us. His legacy Bibbins, who lived in Cheverly, Md., and years, he remained a dedicated and brave to counseling is a bright, burning torch. hero for the cause of the oppressed.” retired in 2009 from his position as chief May it stay lit for generations of counselors Bibbins leaves behind a powerful legacy student services officer of the Manassas to come. I will truly miss his warmth, his within AMCD. One of Bibbins’ favorite campus of Northern Virginia Community wisdom and his laughter.” catchphrases, “differently the same,” con- College (NVCC), led a 40-year career of Among Bibbins’ other professional tinues to permeate the ranks of AMCD, teaching, counseling, management and accomplishments were serving as director according to Sandhu. “He was truly a lov- leadership in various capacities. A pas- of the employee assistance program for ing person, a gentle giant, a visionary leader sionate cheerleader for multiculturalism the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan and an innovative and invigorating person in counseling, Bibbins coedited the book Police Department, as assistant vice who took AMCD to the highest zenith Multicultural Competencies: A Guidebook of chancellor for student affairs at Elizabeth during his presidency through dedication, Practices, published by ACA in 2003. City State University, as assistant to the Daya Singh Sandhu, immediate past hard work and thoughtfulness. Victor, my friend, will always be sorely missed president of Edward Waters College and president of AMCD, reflected on his more as dean of student services at NVCC. In than 10-year friendship with Bibbins. “Not but never forgotten in the golden pages of his role as chief student services officer at only was Victor my close friend, but I also AMCD history.” NVCC, Bibbins developed and taught an consider him my mentor,” said Sandhu, Cirecie West-Olatunji remembers innovative e-learning student success course who coedited Multicultural Competencies Bibbins pulling her aside for a chat for students pursuing careers in teacher with Bibbins. “It was Victor who encour- shortly after she was appointed to her first education. He also led students and faculty aged me to run for the AMCD presidency. academic position at Xavier University on a study tour in South Africa. He supported me through guidance, of Louisiana. “He explained why I encouragement and much-needed advice should run for a national office, why it is Bibbins was actively engaged in creating from time to time, even while he was fac- important to serve the profession. I was policy to advance theological education as a ing his own serious health challenges. I not easily convinced, and it took some member of the Board of Trustees of Payne would dare to say that he was one of the lengthy discussion,” said West-Olatunji, Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, rarest persons I have met throughout my associate professor and mental health track Ohio. He was also a member of Metropoli- life. He was truly a man par excellence.” coordinator in the Counselor Education tan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bibbins was “charismatic, energetic and Program at the University of Florida. the Cathedral of African Methodism in full of wisdom and compassion. Victor was “However, Victor’s easygoing style and Washington, D.C. truly warm, kind, humorous and a people sense of humor helped me to see things Bibbins is survived by his wife, Odessa person,” Sandhu said. “Amidst all the more clearly and to see the value in B. Bibbins; three sons, Victor Jr., Issa challenges, he always had a great smile on professional service.” and Immanuel; a daughter, Shamar; his face. He greeted life, regardless of if it Bibbins was a mentor to West-Olatunji three grandchildren, Kason, Marcia and brought happiness or sorrows.” as she served in AMCD, first as vice presi- Christian; four sisters, Alice, Nellie, Leila Bibbins, the youngest of six children, was dent of African American concerns and and Karen; and his brother, Keith. born in Detroit in 1947. After high school, then as president of the association. “Look- A memorial service was held Oct. 23 in he went on to earn his bachelor’s and ing back, I realize that I have systematically Washington. u
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 101 Voice Awards honor positive depictions of mental health issues
ACA lends support to SAMHSA program
From left, Ed Evans, Marcheta Evans, Dean Porter and Norma Zuber were among those representing the counseling profession at the 2010 Voice Awards in Los Angeles.
he Substance Abuse and Mental ing direct services but how their struggles Health Services Administration directly impacted the support system and T(SAMHSA) honored writers family members as well. and producers of hit film and TV produc- “Another positive outcome of ACA’s tions at the 2010 Voice Awards, held Oct. participation was the opportunity to 13 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, connect with other mental health associa- for increasing public awareness of mental tions and providers. I had the wonderful health and substance use issues. Emmy opportunity to meet staff from the Ad Award-winning actor Hector Elizondo Council, the National Association of So- and Academy Award-winning actor Louis cial Workers and others, which resulted Gossett Jr. cohosted the fifth anniversary in potential opportunities for further col- event, which this year spotlighted story laborations.” lines illustrating the unique challenges “ACA’s ongoing support of the Voice facing military families. Awards is just one more way we help to The American Counseling Association decrease the stigma of mental illness and once again served as a program partner reinforce the positive and selfless work for SAMHSA’s Voice Awards. ACA Presi- of mental health professionals,” said Yep, dent Marcheta Evans and ACA Executive who served on one of this year’s Voice Director Richard Yep attended the awards Awards review panels. “Those in the ceremony to show ACA’s support for ef- forts that give a voice to those with men- entertainment industry who receive rec- tal health problems. ognition with a Voice Award are shining “To be able to experience the Voice examples of how this important issue can Awards is an awesome experience and be portrayed in a dignified and respectful opportunity for ACA,” Evans said. “It al- manner. I hope that their industry peers lows us to see the positive ways in which take note of these achievements.” mental health issues are being portrayed Among the array of actors from nomi- in the media. A lot of times, we have a nated programs who presented awards tendency to focus on the negative, and at the event were America Ferrera of The we miss the positive ways that others are Dry Land, Peter Krause of Parenthood, trying to portray the struggle some people Julia Ormond of Temple Grandin, Sandra endure in working through their mental Oh of Grey’s Anatomy, Elmo of Sesame health needs. The stories covered not Street and Marc Indelicato and Tony only the needs of the individuals need- Plana of Ugly Betty.
102 | Counseling Today | December 2010 “SAMHSA is grateful to the writ- n Mental (FOX) for the episode “Lines in her work in championing mental health ers and producers of these stories for the Sand” addressing the effect of post- awareness. Carter’s 40-year campaign to bringing national attention to the plight traumatic stress disorder on military improve the mental health system and to and courage of people with behavioral families educate American families, including mil- health conditions and their families,” n Mercy (NBC) for the episode “Pulling itary families, about behavioral health has said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. the Goalie” addressing the effect of post- reduced prejudice and discrimination and Hyde. “The outstanding works we honor traumatic stress disorder on military encouraged more people to seek recovery. tonight can have a profound impact and families A Lifetime Achievement Award was advance public understanding of mental presented to Moe Armstrong of West illnesses and addictions. SAMHSA is also n Parenthood (NBC) for the episodes Haven, Conn., for his leadership and pleased to recognize national consumer “Pilot,” “Man Versus Possum” and contributions to the behavioral health leaders with Voice Awards. These indi- “The Deep End of the Pool” addressing recovery movement. Armstrong first viduals have walked the walk and shared Asperger’s syndrome experienced and was hospitalized for the story to help others find their way. n Temple Grandin (HBO) for addressing psychiatric symptoms at age 21 while Thanks to these leaders, more people autism serving in the Vietnam War. He later know the power of recovery.” Film category became an advocate for people with This year’s awards program recognized mental health and substance use issues the countless contributions of America’s n Adam for addressing Asperger’s and founded the Vet-to-Vet Program. military men and women and spotlighted syndrome The peer-support model helps veterans to the behavioral health issues they face as n The Dry Land for addressing the effect deal with behavioral health issues while they return home from the battlefield to of post-traumatic stress disorder on supporting resiliency and recovery. The their communities and families. military families program now operates in veterans centers Awards were also given to outstanding n Precious for addressing depression in 39 cities around the country. leaders in the behavioral health recovery Consumer Leadership Awards movement who promote the social inclu- Documentary category were bestowed on Gayle Bluebird of sion of people with behavioral health n Coming Home: Military Families Cope Gainesville, Fla.; Fredrick Frese of Akron, problems and exemplify the real possibil- With Change (Sesame Workshop) for Ohio; Clarence Jordan of Nashville, ity of recovery. addressing the effects of post-traumatic Tenn.; LaVerne Miller of Delmar, N.Y.; The 2010 Voice Awards entertainment stress disorder and traumatic brain and Janet Paleo of San Antonio. The winners were: injury on military families Young Adult Leadership Award was Television category n No Kidding, Me Too! for addressing presented to Lorrin Gehring of Provo, Utah. All of these individuals were n Army Wives (Lifetime) for a series of the effects of clinical depression, episodes addressing how post-traumatic post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar recognized for their work to promote stress disorder and traumatic brain disorder, and attention-deficit/ community acceptance and support injuries can affect military members and hyperactivity disorder on military in facilitating recovery for people with their families families mental illness. “My favorite part of attending the n Desperate Housewives (ABC) for the epi- n This Emotional Life (PBS) for addressing Voice Awards was getting to hear the sode “How About a Friendly Shrink?” post-traumatic stress disorder, stories of these awardees,” Evans said. addressing inpatient psychiatric care depression and anxiety and including “To hear what they have overcome to be n Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) for the episodes their effects on military families where they are today was overwhelming. “Good Mourning” and “Goodbye” In addition, former First Lady Rosalynn It made you walk away with a smile and addressing the effect of post-traumatic Carter was honored with the SAMHSA a feeling of hope and joy in the resiliency stress disorder on military families Special Career Recognition Award for of man.” u
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 103 NBCC Perspective - By Jolie A. Long and Kristi McCaskill The purpose and benefits of national certification
alifornia’s passage in 2009 of a state licensure for counseling. Although with being an NCC. These benefits state licensure law, making it this seems like a long period of time, it include: Cthe 50th and final state to pass is consistent with the amount of time it Portability: The NCC credential travels such legislation, represented a hallmark took other mental health professions. For with the individual from state to state. for the counseling profession. This year, example, it took psychology 32 years and Marketability: When competing for we have witnessed a major development social work 47 years to achieve the same jobs with other master’s-level professionals, in the recognition and use of professional task. national certification is a voluntary counselors within the U.S. Department of NBCC, along with countless other distinction that can set you apart from the Veterans Affairs (VA). Although we have individuals and organizations, has pushed rest. Certificants demonstrate professional accomplished much, important work is yet and continues to press for the recognition identity and dedication to continued skill to be done. It is crucial that the counseling of professional counseling at the state development and adherence to ethical profession protects its achievements and and national levels. Beyond the efforts standards. NBCC also offers specialized continues to develop to meet the growing to establish licensure laws and to include certifications such as the Master Addictions needs of citizens. One way to ensure the counselors in the VA, some examples of Counselor, National Certified School profession’s success is to maintain the ongoing pushes include recognition of Counselor and Certified Clinical Mental National Certified Counselor (NCC) counselors as Medicare providers and Health Counselor to further distinguish credential. Not only is it necessary for the the removal of referral and supervision you as a professional. continuation of a single set of standards for requirements for counselors in TRICARE. Fair Access Coalition in Testing certification in the profession, but it is also Now more than ever, it is imperative (FACT): NBCC is a founding member beneficial to the individual NCC. that counselors maintain their NCC of FACT, an organization created when Efforts such as the ones to achieve state designation. This is beneficial both professionals in certain states faced cease- licensure have shown it is most effective to the profession and the individual and-desist orders from psychology boards to have individual professionals, such as NCC. Professional counselors can have regarding their use of testing instruments. NCCs, as well as counseling organizations a profound political effect because we Details are available at fairaccess.org. involved. In fact, it is critical to have the know how to communicate effectively Institute for Personality and Ability cooperative effort of both practitioners and possess extensive knowledge of the Testing Inc. (IPAT): NBCC collaborates and counselor organizations calling profession. With more than 45,000 NCCs with IPAT to enable NCCs to purchase for change. The National Board for currently certified, NBCC’s federal and discounted testing instruments, such as the Certified Counselors was created in 1982 state lobbying power is strong, and by to provide a register of counselors who working together, we can achieve necessary 16PF. meet profession-defined and appropriate changes. However, counselors must remain International involvement: Counseling requirements for practice. NBCC provided active and communicate to their public in the United States has just achieved a data to legislators about the numbers of officials how specific legislation impacts milestone, but internationally, it is still certified counselors in specific areas, and by counselors’ ability to provide services to in its infancy. In fact, research shows demonstrating this, the need for licensure the public. This means we must remain that more than 450 million people was proved. Membership and professional certified if we want our voice to be heard. suffer from mental health issues, and accreditation organizations established It is important to note that state licensure in many places, there are no resources. other critical components that legislators boards were created to implement the NBCC International, a division of look for when considering licensure or laws passed by local governments, not to NBCC, partners with the World Health regulation. Yet, it is the involvement of advocate for the profession. Rarely can Organization and UNESCO (the United local counselors that is uniquely able to they take active roles in advocacy matters. Nations Educational, Scientific and provide experiences that illustrate how the Certification fees allow us to advocate for Cultural Organization) to provide access professional data connect to serve the needs counselors at the state and federal levels. to mental health services for remote of state residents. This is a benefit — perhaps one of the and underserved populations. This is Even with the collaborative efforts most important — of being an NCC. accomplished through the Mental Health between counselor organizations and Collectively, NCCs can achieve recognition Facilitator (MHF) program. To date, individual counselors, it took more than at multiple levels. We are working with you NBCC-I has trained approximately 300 three decades (34 years to be exact) for and for you. MHFs and 174 MHF trainers around all 50 states (as well as Puerto Rico, In addition to major advocacy efforts, the world. For more information on this Washington, D.C., and Guam) to achieve there are many other benefits that come program, visit nbccinternational.org.
104 | Counseling Today | December 2010 Psychology Today: This past year, NBCC partnered with Psychology Today to From The President bring services to our certificants. The first Continued from page 5 is a free trial of the Therapy Directory. The other is a discounted subscription today, with an overwhelming desire to I don’t like the idea that we are to the magazine. We also created a way make a difference and to change the way underserving those we have committed to gain continuing education credits for we serve certain groups of people. to serve. What can we do to make sure reading selected articles and taking an I recently saw a very provocative we meet their needs? There are no easy assessment. For details, go to nbcc.org and documentary called Waiting for answers, but I know you are committed click on the Psychology Today icon at the Superman. Whether or not you agree to being the best possible counselor you bottom of the page. with the premise of the documentary, can be. I’m asking you to survey your The Professional Counselor: Research you walk away thinking about the state work setting to see if you can identify and Practice (TPC): NBCC will launch of our educational system and what groups that might be underserved. We a new academic journal this year with it might really take to make a change. sometimes get so caught up in doing our the goal of creating an online resource The members of my family are either jobs that we lose sight of why we started that will appeal to NCCs around the educators or health professionals. I have on this career path in the first place. world while also speaking to counselor children who are educators. I was a I know you are only one person, but educators, practitioners, graduate teacher myself. I know personally how remember the impact you have on the hard they work to educate our youth, future of all those you serve. You are the students, researchers, supervisors and the but as a whole, we still seem to be losing most important tool you take into the general public. Expect the first edition in this educational battle. Is this another counseling session. You are that change late 2010. For details, go to nbcc.org and example of students being underserved? agent. You are the one who can make the click on the TPC icon at the bottom of What is our role as counselors in the difference, just as you have already done the page. educational system? so many times in the past. u Low-cost liability insurance: NBCC offers, through Lockton Affinity, reasonable insurance that is available to all graduate students and NCCs. Rates range depending on location and specialty, but you can obtain an instant, free quote 24 hours a day without providing personal Did you Know? information. For details, go to nbcc.org and click on the Lockton icon at the ACA members can download bottom of the page. complete issues of Counseling Today from These are just a few of the many benefits the website. of being an NCC. Above all, the NCC designation identifies that a counselor has met and maintains exceptional professional Visit counseling.org, click on standards. This propels the counseling "Publications," then click profession forward and provides collective on "Counseling Today." strength to carry us through the upcoming decades. By becoming and remaining an NCC, you can be a part of the future of counseling. u
Jolie A. Long is the executive projects coordinator for NBCC. Kristi McCaskill is NBCC’s director of professional advocacy and ethics. Letters to the editor: [email protected]
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 105 division, region & Branch News
ACCA expands online resources This presentation will be offered live Preference will be given to those with a Submitted by Brian Van Brunt on Feb. 15 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Eastern history of involvement with AACE/ACA- [email protected] time and is also available for purchase affiliated organizations. The American College Counseling on CD. ACCA will offer CEUs for this Interested individuals should submit Association recently held its national event, either live or on CD. For more formal application materials by Jan. conference in St. Louis with more than information, visit paper-clip.com or 10. Materials should include a current 300 attendees. A special thanks to Sylvia collegecounseling.org. As always, a large curriculum vitae, a complete list of Shortt for coordinating this Herculean portion of the earnings from the online publications and reprints of no more than effort! seminars goes back to ACCA to increase five of the applicant’s most significant ACCA is excited to tell you about some membership benefits and to keep our publications, a statement of vision for the of our new online resources. We have membership costs low. editorial direction for the journal and a statement from an administrator of the developed a members-only section on our AACE seeks journal editor website (collegecounseling.org/forum) that applicant’s institution or organization Submitted by Dale Pietrzak provides excellent resources, presentations, describing support for the appointment (if handouts, syllabi and articles available for [email protected] applicable). Reviews of the candidates will The Association for Assessment in download. Did you miss our conference begin Jan. 10 and continue until filled. Counseling and Education is seeking in St. Louis? Fear not, all the presentation The appointment will be announced as handouts are uploaded there. Are you an applications for the position of editor of soon as possible, with the editor-elect ACCA member who needs access to the the journal Measurement and Evaluation in expected to begin working with the forum? E-mail [email protected] Counseling and Development. The journal current editor approximately March 1 to or [email protected], and we will be is a national, peer-reviewed publication facilitate the official transition on July 1. happy to assist you. with a readership composed of counselors, A verification of receipt will be sent within We also have an active electronic educators and other professionals 48 hours of receipt. Materials should be mailing list that provides consultation interested in providing leadership, training submitted electronically (Word or PDF) and information to members. This and research in the creation, development, to Dale Pietrzak, AACE member-at-large is a closed e-list and is only available production and use of assessment and of publications, at [email protected]. to ACCA members. The e-list is diagnostic techniques. Its mission is NCDA rolls out new currently being managed by MJ Raleigh to promote and recognize scholarship, training curriculum ([email protected]). It is important to professionalism, leadership and excellence note that this e-list is different from the in the development and use of assessment Submitted by Deneen Pennington online forum on our website because this and diagnostic techniques in counseling. [email protected] is a common area of confusion. The appointment of editor is a three-year The National Career Development Our next online seminar (in partnership term beginning July 1. Association will launch a new training with PaperClip Communications) Appointment is conditional upon the curriculum titled “Supervision for Career will be offered by Brian Van Brunt following qualifications: Development Practitioners” in early and attorney Carolyn Wolf and titled n Experience as an editorial board 2011. This curriculum was developed “Parent Involvement: Five Legal and member of a professional publication through a joint collaboration with the Practical Issues When Including — and or similar experience (associate editor Japan Career Development Association. Not Including — Parents in Higher or editor of another publication) This internationally piloted curriculum is intended to be the next step for Education.” The program will include n A record of scholarly publications in several case studies and opportunities refereed journals those who have completed the Career for interactive sharing and dialogue Development Facilitator Training or about how to include parents in their n Demonstrated expertise in assessment who may have experience in the career students’ education and ways to address and research methods (quantitative, development field but no formal training and facilitate parents in the “letting go” qualitative, SSRD, etc.) in overseeing employees. process. Join us as we address how to n An understanding of and commitment The curriculum will be a 50-hour better manage parents who are upset, to the mission of AACE, including program delivered in a blended approach. emotional, confused or frustrated as they AACE membership and involvement Modules will be delivered via e-learning, transition into their new role. if selected as well as conducted face-to-face. NCDA
106 | Counseling Today | December 2010 is honored to have Sandra Manoogian as occupation in high demand. Those skilled treatment, crises leadership and holistic the author of the curriculum. Manoogian in professional employment counseling solutions for harnessing resiliency. Join is completing her doctorate at Oakland are promised a long line of customers. us if you have clients whose mental University and has extensive experience Whether you work in a workforce well-being would be greatly enhanced if with supervision. Judith Hoppin has development center, a community-based a truly worthwhile job became part of also served as contributing editor and organization, an executive search firm their reality. For more information, visit brings years of curriculum development or operate your own private practice, employmentcounseling.org. experience to the project. Hoppin was an completing the “Working Ahead, Moving WCA announces original author of the Facilitating Career Forward” Global Career Development 2010 award winners Development training curriculum when Facilitator (GCDF) training will the initiative was started in the early dramatically increase your effectiveness. Submitted by Janet de Vries 1990s. This online GCDF curriculum, [email protected] An April training is scheduled, and created by Kay Brawley of the National The Wyoming Counseling Association additional quarterly offerings will be Employment Counseling Association and presented the following four awards at planned for 2011 and beyond. Watch the Roberta Neault of Life Strategies Ltd., its annual fall conference. Lance Goede, NCDA website at ncda.org for more news gives 24/7 access to a substantial learning the “lone ranger” counselor at Central on this exciting new program. opportunity leading to certification Wyoming College (CWC) in Riverton, ASERVIC offers recap from the Center for Credentialing received the Outstanding Service Award. of fall board meeting and Education (cce-global.org/home). He serves on the Wyoming Mental Graduates send a clear message about Health Professionals Licensing Board Submitted by Jennifer R. Curry competence to potential employers and representing licensed professional [email protected] customers. counselors. Goede started his career as The Association for Spiritual, Ethical The lead instructor for the next GCDF the housing director at CWC before and Religious Values in Counseling course, beginning Feb. 15, is Michael moving into the counseling position, Executive Council and Board had a Lazarchick, who has 35 years’ experience where he serves on the college’s behavioral productive fall meeting. We reviewed our providing individual counseling and intervention team. bylaws, planned ACA Annual Conference facilitating group discussions. A true Richard Hannon, counselor at Cody’s events, worked on finding a hotel location employment counseling expert and a Livingston Elementary School, received for the 2012 ASERVIC Conference certified online instructor, Lazarchick the Richard R. Means Elementary/ in New Mexico, solidified pertinent offers students a wealth of knowledge, Middle School Counselor of the Year information for the journal editor search and his graduates will always have access Award. Hannon’s educational career spans and discussed specifics of the upcoming to his advice and counseling. For more more than 30 years, including working ASERVIC spiritual journey. The meeting information, contact Kay Brawley at as a teacher, administrator and school provided a good forum for the board to [email protected] or register counselor. establish long-term goals and to begin online at . The Wyoming Mental Health strategic planning for upcoming initiatives. employmentcounseling.org Professions Licensing Board was Members interested in viewing bylaw Lazarchick has a reputation for presented with the Garth Shanklin changes or the ASERVIC event schedule inspirational public speaking and Exemplary Practices Award for a for the ACA Annual Conference should has researched, written and delivered mental health organization providing visit our newly updated website at aservic. hundreds of training seminars. He org. We would like to give special thanks entertains while translating complex outstanding public service for nearly 25 to our webmaster, Daniel Gutierrez, for issues into an easy-to-understand, years. It is one of the nation’s earliest and his ongoing efforts to improve the site for practical format. He will be speaking most effective legislatively mandated, our members. live at NECA’s Day of Learning, March comprehensive omnibus bodies to In addition, we are in the process of 25, during ACA’s Annual Conference, safeguard the health, safety and welfare initiating our first spiritual journey. The with an impressive array of colleagues, of its citizens. It ensures that those spiritual journey will be a 12-day visit to including: Roberta Neault, British individuals licensed or certified to provide England and Scotland highlighting sites Columbia; Spencer Niles, Center for the mental health services in Wyoming are of historical and spiritual significance. Study of Career Development and Public appropriately qualified. For more information about the spiritual Policy, Penn State; Carolyn Greer, Texas Veronica Skoranski received the F.L. journey, contact ASERVIC President- A&M; Tom Ayala, People Solutions LLC, Sievers Human Service Award, which Elect Mark Young at [email protected]. Oregon; Bill Fenson, Fenson Counseling, recognizes an individual who has made Dallas; and Kimberly Key, Encompass a significant contribution to the field of NECA offers online certification Work & Family, Austin, Texas. human services. Skoranski serves as the and Day of Learning Presentations run from 11 a.m. executive director of the Mental Health Submitted by Kay Brawley to 6 p.m. with topics such as Professions Licensing Board, which she [email protected] bioenvironmental counseling solutions, has mentored since its inception. She As we move into the second decade of hope, strategies after long-term and her staff provide full administrative the 21st century, career counseling is an unemployment, life-span-focused support for 17 boards. u
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Coming events qualifications and experience, audio-visual of original manuscripts in the following requirements and full contact details. areas: manuscripts that describe and provide ASERVIC Spiritual Journey Submit by Dec. 30 via mail to ACA, P.O. support for primary prevention programs in May 11-22 Box 160, Grange QLD 4051, Australia schools and communities or for secondary England/Scotland or via e-mail to [email protected]. prevention programs for groups at highest The Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Applicants will be notified by Jan. 13. risk for eating disorders, and manuscripts Religious Values in Counseling is pleased that describe and provide support for best to announce its first Spiritual Journey — a Call for submissions practices in the treatment of eating disorders. 12-day adventure in England and Scotland The Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Manuscripts that address the unique visiting areas of religious, spiritual and and Transgender Issues in Counseling treatment needs of diverse client groups are cultural significance. Highlights of the invites submissions for a special issue of the strongly encouraged. Submit your proposal guided tour include stops in London, Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling. The to Laura Choate, guest editor, no later than Glastonbury, York and Edinburgh. special issue theme is “Finding the Spirit Dec. 15. For more information regarding Participants will have the opportunity to Within: Spirituality Issues in the LGBTQ the preparation of proposals, e-mail Laura visit many historical sites that signify the Community.” Guest editors are Michael Choate at [email protected]. enduring spiritual legacy and rich religious Kocet and Jennifer Curry. The deadline for diversity England has to offer. For more submissions for the special issue is June 30. Call for proposals information, contact ASERVIC President- Submissions of general articles pertinent The South Carolina Counseling Elect Mark Young at [email protected]. to the journal are welcome on an ongoing Association will be hosting its 47th Annual basis. The journal is published quarterly. Conference Feb. 3-5 at the Marriott Resort FYI For detailed submission guidelines or at the Grand Dunes in Myrtle Beach. information regarding the special issue, Themed “South Carolina Counselors: Call for journal editor e-mail Michael Kocet at mkocet@yahoo. Agents of Change,” the conference will be The Association for Assessment in com or Jennifer Curry at [email protected]. For loaded with great workshops on numerous Counseling and Education is seeking general articles, e-mail Editor Ned Farley at topics related to mental health. We are still applications for the position of editor of [email protected]. accepting proposals for workshops. CEUs the journal Measurement and Evaluation in for workshop attendance will be available. Counseling and Development. The journal is Call for proposals For more information, visit sccounselor.org or a national, peer-reviewed publication with The 2011 International Association contact David Scott at [email protected]. a readership of counselors, educators and for Counselling Conference, themed other professionals interested in providing “No Nation Left Behind: Challenges Call for submissions leadership, training and research in the and Opportunities of Counselling Contemporary Psychotherapy is a free creation, development, production and use and Education for All,” will be held in international e-journal for counselors and of assessment and diagnostic techniques. Montego Bay, Jamaica, June 13-17. IAC psychotherapists of all modalities. With the Its mission is to promote and recognize invites papers in the following strands: professional community of psychotherapists scholarship, professionalism, leadership counseling for educational opportunity and counselors in mind, Contemporary and excellence in the development and use with children, young people and adults; Psychotherapy aims to be progressive, of assessment and diagnostic techniques counseling for employment and career inquiring and creative; to encourage in counseling. The appointment of editor opportunities; promoting peace and human interactive debate with its international is a three-year term beginning July 1. For rights; counseling for educational access readership; and to address, rather than more information, visit theaaceonline.com/ and equity; and counselling and HIV/ avoid, the possibly contentious. We are MECD_Editor.pdf. AIDS education. Abstracts should be seeking authors interested in submitting limited to 250 words. Please include the articles of up to 2,500 words on all Call for submissions following: paper title; name, organization therapeutic issues. The spring 2010 issue The Australian Counselling Association and qualifications; professional counseling is available at contemporarypsychotherapy. 2011 National Conference, to be held Nov. membership; audio-visual requirements; org. For more information, e-mail Werner 12-13 in Melbourne, Australia, invites and name, address, e-mail and daytime and Kierski, editor-in-chief, at editor@ abstract/paper submissions in Word format cell phone numbers, including country and contemporarypsychotherapy.org. of between 500 and 1,000 words providing area code. Submit abstracts by Dec. 31 to a brief outline of your proposed paper/ Bulletin Board submission guidelines [email protected]. workshop. Specialty subjects in relation Items for the Counseling Today Bulletin to research, counseling, psychotherapy, Call for submissions Board must be submitted via e-mail to guidance, youth, family, relationships, The Journal of Counseling & Development [email protected] with “Bulletin elastic brain and modalities are encouraged. invites submissions for a special section Board” in the subject line. Limit Abstracts are for 90-minute workshops and focusing on the prevention and treatment submissions to 125 words or less. Non- papers for 30-minute presentations. Include of eating disorders. Interested scholars and calendar items will be published for a the title of the presentation, a brief bio of practitioners are invited to send proposals maximum of three consecutive months. u
108 | Counseling Today | December 2010 News & Notes
ACA invited to present Experts assess efforts to new perspectives of how trauma and its at TRICARE symposium rebuild Iraq’s behavioral many behavioral health consequences can American Counseling Association Chief health care system be successfully treated,” said SAMHSA Professional Officer David Kaplan was an From Oct. 19-21, the Iraqi Cultural Administrator Pamela S. Hyde. “This invited panel member at an Institute of Center in Washington, D.C., hosted six insight promises to help free millions of Medicine (IOM) symposium, “A Quality teams of behavioral health specialists people suffering from the devastation of Management System for Licensed from Iraq who spoke about their efforts exposure to violence and other forms of Mental Health Counselors and Other to strengthen Iraq’s behavioral health care trauma from lives of despair to lives of Behavioral Health Professionals in the system. Their work is part of a six-year hope and fulfillment.” Military Health System,” held Oct. 13- partnership between the Iraqi government ACA unveils CE Connection 15 in Washington, D.C. The symposium and the U.S. Substance Abuse and ACA has been rolling out many new was held to build on recommendations Mental Health Services Administration opportunities for its members to earn made in the IOM report “Provision (SAMHSA) to rebuild and expand Iraq’s continuing education credits. Now ACA of Mental Health Counseling Services mental health services capacity and to members will be able to see all of the Under TRICARE.” ACA, along with improve services to special populations in CE credit options in one place — CE the Council for Accreditation of the United States. Connection, an e-newsletter that will be Counseling and Related Educational Since 2004, the Iraq-SAMHSA delivered monthly to all members for Programs and the National Board for Partnership on Behavioral Health has whom ACA has an e-mail address. Certified Counselors, previously provided helped Iraq reestablish its behavioral In the e-newsletter, CE offerings testimony for this critical report that health service system by sponsoring will be organized into categories that unequivocally recommended independent planning conferences and enabling Iraqi make it easy to find information on practice status for mental health behavioral health leaders to visit U.S. host opportunities to earn CE credit through counselors in TRICARE, the health care sites that practice interventions which ACA. For example, if you want to find system for active and retired military the Iraqis want to implement in their the program with the highest number of personnel and their families. country. CE credits, visit the section that breaks At the recent IOM symposium on The Iraqi and American presenters at out the program by number of credits. If TRICARE, ACA was asked to speak the symposium agreed that, in general, you want to find a program on a specific on scopes of practice in the civilian and this partnership, as well as a similar topic, take a look at the breakdown by military health systems. Kaplan, with one with the British government, has topic. materials prepared by ACA Director helped the Iraqi Ministry of Health You can earn CE credit in many ways of Public Policy and Legislation Scott become increasingly able to provide a through ACA, including taking online Barstow, provided evidence that wider array of innovative mental health courses; reading a book, book chapter diagnosing and treating mental disorders services well suited to its communities. In or journal article; reading featured is well within the scope of practice of particular, Iraqi mental health providers Counseling Today articles and taking licensed counselors. He also emphasized are developing greater insights and skills the CT Learning test (formerly called that TRICARE scopes of practice and in providing help to those with post- JournaLearning); and, our newest privileging should be based on the traumatic stress disorders and other offering, listing to ACA podcasts. In competency of the individual provider serious psychological conditions. addition, attendees at the ACA Annual rather than the particular license held (for The symposium also revealed that the Conference & Exposition in New example, counseling, psychology, social partnership has greatly benefited U.S. Orleans in March can earn as many as work, or marriage and family therapy). participants as well, providing them 38 CE credits in a matter of days. The ACA PowerPoint, as well with a much better understanding of Whatever medium you choose, the as 18 other presentations and the how to effectively address the needs of price per CE credit through ACA is the symposium’s complete agenda, can refugees and immigrants from Iraq and same: $20 per credit for ACA members be accessed through the IOM website other culturally similar countries. The and $30 per credit for nonmembers. at iom.edu/Activities/MentalHealth/ knowledge and skills gained also hold In addition, all ACA members are TRICAREMentalHealth/2010-OCT-13. tremendous promise in terms of treating eligible for the free CE of the month aspx. Additional information about trauma-affected U.S. troops returning opportunity. For more information on the symposium will be provided in an from Iraq and other areas of conflict. the free CE, e-mail FreeCEoftheMonth@ upcoming Washington Update column “This extraordinarily successful counseling.org or call 800.347.6647 in Counseling Today. cooperative venture has yielded important ext. 222. u
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 109 Dec. 2010 READ Counseling Today, TAKE the CT Learning Exam, EARN Continuing Education Credit Earn 1 CE Credit by reading selected articles in this issue. Read the articles identified below and answer 7 of the 10 questions correctly to earn 1 CE credit. It’s that simple! By reading Counseling Today every month, you can earn up to 12 CE credits each year. And you’ll be well-informed. Start reading now!
Under the Radar Counselor Involvement in DSM-5 Field Trials 1. The U.S. Census began counting biracial or multiple heritage people for the first 6. The purpose of the field trial stage in the development of the Diagnostic and time in: Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is to: ❍ 1910 ❍ Make certain that all mental disorders are included ❍ 1960 ❍ Evaluate the practical use of the proposed DSM-5 diagnostic criteria in ❍ 2000 real-world clinical settings ❍ 2010 ❍ Prioritize diagnostic criteria relevant to specific mental disorders ❍ Identify therapeutic strategies appropriate to particular disorders 2. The student group created by Derrick Paladino at Rollins College to serve multiracial clients was given what name by the members? Reader Viewpoint: Helping Clients With Limb Loss ❍ Multicultural Students United 7. Statistics from the Amputee Coalition of America and Johns Hopkins University ❍ Multiethnic Student Society set the U.S. population with limb loss at: ❍ Crossing Cultures Club ❍ 500,000 ❍ 1,250,000 ❍ 1,700,000 ❍ 2,500,000 ❍ United Across Cultures Society
Reader Viewpoint: Counselors’ Response 3. In order to be effective in counseling in the Appalachian culture, Kathryn Russ to Mexican Immigration suggests that counselors: ❍ Practice active listening 8. The authors cite the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as having a ❍ Be sensitive to coming across as an expert or “know-it-all” positive effect on the economic stability of the people of Mexico. ❍ Practice some level of self-disclosure ❍ True ❍ False ❍ All of the above 9. Which of the following interventions is viewed as especially validating and 4. Which of the following issues or problems is not cited by David Hof as a concern empowering for Latina/o immigrant clients? of the Native American reservation population: ❍ Storytelling ❍ The dropout rate ❍ Journaling ❍ The teen suicide rate ❍ Play therapy ❍ The infant mortality rate ❍ Role playing ❍ The divorce rate Private Practice in Counseling Spotlight on Journals 10. According to the column authors, January is important to private practice 5. Sheri Bauman opines that efficacy research is often overlooked because of the counselors because: challenges inherent in conducting research in “real-life” circumstances. ❍ New insurance deductibles kick in ❍ True ❍ A new tax year begins ❍ False ❍ Office leases typically must be renewed for the year ❍ None of the above
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December 2010 | Counseling Today | 111 and training at their fingertips. When you sults and collaborates with community pro- join VA, you will be a core member of our ILLINOIS fessionals and programs. Participates with interdisciplinary care team structure, col- Graceland University faculty and staff in laborating with both primary care and oth- CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY program and organizational development. er mental health professionals to establish Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Seeks professional supervision, when ap- the right course of treatment for patients. Counseling Department Of Psychology propriate, for clinical practice or training. VA has health care facilities in all 50 states, The Psychology Department at Chicago Qualifications: Licensed Mental Health the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. State University (CSU) invites applications Clinician (Counseling, Marriage and Fam- Should a mental health professional desire for a full-time, tenure track faculty member ily Therapy, Psychology, or Social Work) to relocate, he or she may seek employment for the CACREP accredited Graduate with a Master’s Degree. The clinician must at any location where there is a vacancy Program in Counseling. be licensed to practice independently, and and, if hired, transfer without loss of RESPONSIBILITIES: Primary responsi- their degree must be from an accredited benefits. Only one active, unrestricted state bilities include teaching graduate counsel- academic institution. Past clinical experi- license is needed to practice in a VA facility ing courses, maintaining active research, ence, which is commensurate with the in the above locations. and performing service activities for the clinical needs of the college age population, We have opportunities for Counselors, university community. is preferred. Must have strong listening Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, QUALIFICATIONS: Earned doctorate and communication skills, and the ability Psychiatric Nurses nationwide. Visit us at in Counselor Education from a CACREP to work well in an interdisciplinary setting. www.VAcareers.va.gov to learn more or to accredited program. Experience in School Computer skills are highly desirable. This apply. EOE/AA, M/D/F/V Counseling is desirable. Strong evidence is a 9 month position (mid-August thru of research and grant writing ability. ABD mid-May). To apply, send cover letter, CALIFORNIA candidates will be considered. RANK/SAL- resume and 3 letters of reference to: Hu- ARY: Commensurate with qualifications. man Resources at Graceland University, 1 CALIF. STATE UNIVERSITY, TERM: To begin in January of August, University Place, Lamoni, IA 50140. Fax NORTHRIDGE 2011. DEADLINE: February 15, 2011. 641-784-5033; email: personnel@grace- land.edu. Position open till filled. Posted Assistant Professor, Career Counseling Application reviews will begin immedi- 10/28/2010 and College Counseling/Student Affairs. ately. Apply by November 1st for initial The Department of Educational Psychol- consideration. Thereafter, reviews will be ogy and Counseling in the Michael D. Eis- conducted biweekly until the position is MARYLAND ner College of Education at CSUN seeks filled. APPLICATION: To apply, submit a qualified doctorate level candidates with an letter of application, curriculum vitae, three UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND established teaching and practice record to letters of recommendation, transcripts, and EASTERN SHORE fill a full-time, tenure-track position at the publications reprints via email to: Counselor, Office of Counseling Services rank of Assistant Professor. The primary Dr. John Lynch, Search Committee The Division of Student Affairs invites instructional assignment for this position Chairperson, [email protected] , Phone: resumes for a full-time, twelve month, Ex- is with the Career Counseling and College (773) 995-2098 empt category position with full benefits. Counseling/Student Services master’s level Founded in 1867, Chicago State Univer- Salary is commensurate with experience CACREP-accredited programs. sity (CSU) is the oldest public university in and qualifications. Fulfilling the position Application: Priority will be given to the Chicago of staff counselor is an active and vibrant applications received on or by December 1, Metropolitan area. CSU is a fully ac- opportunity. Our primary purpose is to 2010. Review will subsequently continue credited university offering 37 undergradu- enhance the student’s academic success until the position is filled. To apply, please ate, 22 masters degrees, and two doctorates by promoting emotional well-being and submit a cover letter addressing each of the (Pharmacy and Education Leadership) retention. Responsibilities: The major required qualifications: a curriculum vitae, through five colleges: Business, Education, job requirements consist of: the provision graduate transcripts, three current letters Pharmacy, Health Sciences, and Arts and of individual and group therapy: clini- of reference, records and/or evaluations of Sciences. Our culturally diverse faculty cal assessments, workshop development teaching effectiveness, and other evidence and students are from countries around and facilitation; outreach; and consulta- that supports successful experience in the world. CSU is an equal employment tion services to diverse academic com- opportunity employer. recruiting, mentoring, and advising diverse munity. Performs other related duties as graduate students. Applications should be assigned. Qualifications: Master’s degree addressed to: Dr. M. Simon, Career/Col- IOWA in Counseling or a closely related field with lege Counseling Search Committee, Dept a minimum of five years experience in a of EPC, CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff Street, GRACELAND UNIVERSITY mental health capacity. Must be licensed Northridge, CA 91330-8265 or merril. Personal Counselor or licensed eligible within a year in the [email protected] Planned start date is mid- Position Summary: Applies graduate- state of Maryland. The applicant should be August 2011. CSUN is an Equal Oppor- level clinical counseling skills to the comfortable utilizing diagnostic proce- tunity/Affirmative Action employer. Full psychosocial assessment of individuals and dures, the DSM IV, computer literate, and position listing: http://csucareers.calstate. groups. Provides counseling interventions, possess oral and written communication edu/careers/details.asp?pid=26606 as appropriate, to serve client needs. Con- skills. Strong leadership skills, in-depth
112 | Counseling Today | December 2010 knowledge about the practice of counsel- ing, active participation in professional MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY TEXAS associations, and a proven record of clinical Assistant Professor School Counseling experience is highly desirable. Resumes will JOB POSTING NUMBER: 0600491 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - be accepted until the positions are filled. DEPARTMENT: Ed Leadership, COMMERCE School Counseling and Special Ed . FULL Qualified applicants should submit a letter Counselor Education: Department TIME. JOB DUTIES: Teach 9 credits of application, resume, and have three let- Head position. per semester (12 credits with a 3 credit ters of professional recommendation sent Projected start: August, 2011. CA- course load reduction), including courses directly by reference to the Department of CREP-accredited programs at the master’s in School Counseling/Student Affairs and Human Resources, University of Maryland and doctoral levels. Salary commensurate College Counseling. Serve on commit- Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland with qualifications and experience. Appli- tees. Advise students (including student 21853. E-mail:[email protected] Note: cation deadline: January 21, 2011. Texas counseling association). Participate in Verification of degree is the responsibility A&M University-Commerce is an Equal CACREP accreditation process and main- of the candidate. Individuals with degrees Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. tenance. Coordinate and administer CPCE outside of the US may be subject to veri- Visit http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/ testing. Maintain disciplinary currency. fication. UMES is an EEO/AA employer. facultyStaffServices/humanResources/em- REQUIREMENTS: Doctoral degree in The successful candidate must be able to ployment/default.aspx to find additional Counselor Education and Supervision or show acceptable documentation establish- information and to apply. related field. Candidates must demonstrate ing the right to accept employment in Counselor Education: Assistant evidence of a research agenda or a clear the United States of America. Minorities, Professor of Counseling, 9-month tenure potential for scholarly activities as well as women and persons with disabilities are track (2 positions). Projected start: August evidence of excellent teaching or potential encouraged to apply. 2011. Earned doctorate required @ time of excellent teaching. Field experience in of employment. Salary commensurate School Counseling or Student Affairs/Col- with qualifications, plus possible sum- NEW JERSEY lege Counseling should be evidenced. Col- mer employment. Application deadline laborative skills necessary. ABD candidates January 21, 2011. Texas A&M University- FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY may be considered with degree completion Commerce is an Equal Opportunity/Affir- Assistant Professor of Counselor expected by date of employment. Excellent mative Action employer. Visit http://web. Education/non-tenured track interpersonal, organizational and com- tamu-commerce.edu/facultyStaffServices/ Primary duties include teaching graduate munication skills. PREFERRED QUALI- humanResources/employment/default. level courses in the Master of Arts Clinical FICATIONS: Graduate of a CACREP aspx to find additional information and to Mental Health Counseling program. The accredited program in Counselor Educa- apply. . successful candidate will demonstrate excel- tion. Proficient in hybrid or online course lence in curriculum development, teach- development a plus. CLOSING DATE ing graduate courses areas such as crisis FOR APPLICATIONS: 12-10-2010. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON – intervention, addictions counseling, drugs SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO AP- VICTORIA alcohol and substance abuse, theories of PLICANTS: Anticipated opening for the Tenure-track Assistant/ counseling, multicultural counseling. The 2011-2012 academic year. Tenure track. Associate Professor candidate should have some experience Transcripts and letters of recommendation University of Houston-Victoria invites with oversight of practicum and internships should be directed to Tina Paone, Search applications for a tenure-track Assistant/ and clinical supervision in counseling. Committee Chair, Department of Educa- Associate Professor position in counseling Earned doctorate in counselor education tional Leadership, School Counseling and starting Fall 2011. UH-Victoria, one of or counseling psychology, Licensed profes- Special Education, Monmouth University, four independent universities that consti- sional counselor West Long Branch, NJ 07764. For ad- tute the University of Houston System, Employment is contingent upon a ditional information about the department, operates out of the main campus in Victo- satisfactory background check. Candidates please go to: ria, Texas and offers programs at the Cinco for hire will be required to sign a waiver http://www.monmouth.edu/academics/ Ranch and Sugar Land satellite campuses authorizing the background check and departments/edleadership.asp near Houston, Texas. UH-Victoria is a produce a Social Security Card. LCADC, REQUIRED APPLICANT DOCU- 4-year and upper division degree granting SAC, NCE certification, Approved Clinical MENTS: Resume or Curriculum Vitae, institution and is composed of the School Supervisor. Fairleigh Dickinson Univer- Cover Letter. The University offers Tuition of Education & Human Development, sity is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Remission for employee, spouse and IRS School of Business Administration, School Action Employer committed to a diverse dependent children. TO APPLY: For of Nursing, and School of Arts and Sci- workforce M/F/D/V. further information on this position, ad- ences. The Counselor Education program Interested candidates can learn more ditional vacancies, or to apply: visit: http:// at UH-Victoria offers two CACREP- about and apply for this position through jobs.monmouth.edu MONMOUTH accredited 48-semester-hour Master’s the University’s Web site www.fdu.edu by UNIVERSITY Where Leaders look for- of Education programs in School and clicking on the Employment link at the ward™ Monmouth University is an Equal Community Counseling, and one 36-hour bottom of the page. Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer program in Student Affairs.
December 2010 | Counseling Today | 113 Tenure Track Assistant / Associate tive. Apply on-line at http://uhv.simplehire. Doctorate in counselor education or related Professor in Counseling starting fall 2011. com Screening of applications will begin degree as defined by CACREP required. Candidates must have: (1) an earned doc- November 22, 2010; however applications Experience in teaching counseling and torate with a primary emphasis in Coun- will be accepted until the position is filled. research at the graduate level required at seling or related field from a CACREP For more information about the Counselor the Associate level/preferred at the Assistant accredited university; (2) demonstrated Education Program at UH-Victoria of the level. Submit letter of application, vita record of research, scholarly publications, School of Education & Human Develop- and letter of recommendation electroni- and funded projects or a clear indication of ment, see our web-site at www.uhv.edu/ cally to [email protected] For potential success in these areas; (3) excel- edu.The University of Houston-Victoria lent English communication skills. Must is an affirmative action/equal opportunity more information about the position visit be Texas LPC and/or school counselor li- employer committed to cultural diversity. http://hre.wvu.edu/audience/faculty_staff/ censure eligible. Persons with experience in available_positions and for the program, visit http://counseling.wvu.edu WVU is supervising counselors in the public school WEST VIRGINIA system and those with experience with di- an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action verse populations of students are especially MARSHALL UNIVERSITY Institution. encouraged to apply. Major responsibilities Assistant/Associate Professor, COEHS, include: (1) teaching master’s level courses Counseling Department WISCONSIN in counseling such as practicum, basic Position Type: Nine-month, tenure track counseling skills, theories courses; (2) position with summer teaching available. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- curriculum and program development; (3) Rank and salary: Commensurate with quali- supervising counseling interns; (4) student MADISON fications and experience. Qualifications: An Assistant Professor, Rehabilitation advisement and recruitment; (5) working earned doctorate in Counselor Education Psychology/Rehabilitation Counseling cooperatively with area public schools; with emphasis in School Counseling; prefer- Tenure-track position to begin August (6) maintaining an active research and ence will be given to applicants with school publication agenda; and (7) participating counseling experience; applicants with 29, 2011. To ensure consideration ap- in school and university committees and marriage and family counseling experience is plications must be received by January 14, professional organizations. This position desired; applicants should have general clini- 2011. Information, including responsibili- will office & teach on the UH-Victoria cal skills; licensed or eligible for licensure as ties, qualifications, and application proce- campus in Victoria, TX. Salary is competi- a counselor in WV; possess a demonstrated dures, may be found under “Announce- record of college teaching, evidence of or ments” at http://rpse.education.wisc. capacity for scholarly activity and knowl- edu . Inquiries and applications should edge/experience in using technology to be directed to Professor Norm Berven, deliver instruction. In addition, applicants Department of Rehabilitation Psychology should have evidence of effective commu- & Special Education, 401 Education Bldg., nication skills; commitment to continued University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1000 professional growth and teaching experience Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706; Phone: required. Duties: Responsible for preparing 608-263-7917; FAX: 608-262-8108; and teaching graduate courses, maintaining Email: [email protected]. The University and advising students, engaging in scholarly activities and service, and participating in of Wisconsin-Madison is an equal op- portunity/affirmative action employer. We departmental and institutional functions. Send cover letter, resume, official transcripts promote excellence through diversity and and contact information for three refer- encourage all qualified individuals to apply. ences to Brean Stewart, Marshall University, Jenkins Hall 218, 1 John Marshall Drive, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – Huntington, WV 25755. Candidates in- terviewing on campus must have all official WHITEWATER Tenure-Track Positions transcripts forwarded directly to chair of the search committee by their degree granting The Department of Counselor Edu- institutions. Deadline for applications: Posi- cation at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater seeks highly qualified candi- tion is open until filled. STATUS: OPEN. BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIRED. dates to fill full-time, tenure-track positions in the Master of Science Program in Coun- seling, in both community counseling and WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY Assistant/Associate Professor of Counseling school counseling emphases, at the rank of Tenure track 9 month appointment assistant or associate professor. For full po- teaching in master’s degree program in sition descriptions go to: http://www.uww. school and community health counseling. edu/employment/unclassified.html
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9:00 a.m. First client, Mark. Dealing with depression. Lost his job of 15 years. Body language anxious. Admits he is contemplating shooting his ex-boss.
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11:00 a.m. Mary gave me a big hug, again. She wants me to testify at her son’s child custody hearing. Let’s me know husband is going to subpoena her records. She invites me to dinner.
12:00 p.m. Grab lunch at desk. Check email. Sign up for CE class on crisis management.
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